From: ucaa2385@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann)
Subject: Re: Truncation of FLOAT values
Date: 1996/04/19
Date: 1996-04-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4l80u7$1de2@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4l6bjn$b96@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com
Cordes MJ (l117593@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com) wrote:
: Franz Kruse (Franz.Kruse@erno.de) wrote:
: : Is there a simple way in Ada 83 to determine the integer part or the fraction part
: : of a FLOAT value?
: : A conversion to INTEGER cannot be used, because it rounds.
: If your compiler rounds, then you can simply add 0.5 to the FLOAT value
: prior to converting it an INTEGER. You get the fractional part by
: converting the result back to FLOAT and subtracting it from the
: original FLOAT value.
I am looking into LRM A.5.3(18-62)
Why not using such attributes like fraction, compose,floor,ceiling,etc. etc. ?
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-04-18 0:00 Truncation of FLOAT values Franz Kruse
1996-04-18 0:00 ` Cordes MJ
1996-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-20 0:00 ` Cordes MJ
1996-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-19 0:00 ` Peter Hermann [this message]
1996-04-19 0:00 ` John Herro
1996-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-22 0:00 ` John Herro
1996-04-22 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
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