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From: Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>
Subject: Re: trunc
Date: 1999/03/18
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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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