From: Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>
Subject: Re: trunc
Date: 1999/03/18
Date: 1999-03-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36F17B6D.E4B7115@averstar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3sob2wuq4.fsf@mheaney.ni.net
Matthew Heaney wrote:
>
> phadreus@my-dejanews.com writes:
>
> > what's the most efficient way within Ada
> > to obtain the whole-number portion Y of
> > a floating-point number X?
> >
> > for example,
> >
> > X = 5.5 Y = 5.0
> >
> > X = 2.9 Y = 2.0
>
> T'Floor
I suspect that T'Truncation is more what they had in mind.
T'Truncation(-3.5) = -3.0, whereas T'Floor(-3.5) = 4.0
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-Tucker Taft stt@averstar.com http://www.averstar.com/~stt/
Technical Director, Distributed IT Solutions (www.averstar.com/tools)
AverStar (formerly Intermetrics, Inc.) Burlington, MA USA
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1999-03-18 0:00 trunc phadreus
1999-03-18 0:00 ` trunc Matthew Heaney
1999-03-18 0:00 ` Tucker Taft [this message]
1999-03-19 0:00 ` trunc Michael Stark
1999-03-18 0:00 ` trunc Nick Roberts
1999-03-19 0:00 ` trunc Michael F Brenner
1999-03-19 0:00 ` trunc Markus Kuhn
1999-03-22 0:00 ` trunc Howard W. LUDWIG
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