From: Michael Stark <mstark@cs.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: trunc
Date: 1999/03/19
Date: 1999-03-19T15:52:28+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36F272BB.5355@cs.umd.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36F17B6D.E4B7115@averstar.com
Tucker Taft wrote:
>
> 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
Tuck --
I assume you mean T'floor(-3.5) = -4.0
I wouldn't want to confuse anyone more than they are already ;)
Mike
>
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1999-03-18 0:00 trunc phadreus
1999-03-18 0:00 ` trunc Matthew Heaney
1999-03-18 0:00 ` trunc Nick Roberts
1999-03-18 0:00 ` trunc Tucker Taft
1999-03-19 0:00 ` Michael Stark [this message]
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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