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From: Michael Stark <mstark@cs.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: trunc
Date: 1999/03/19
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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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