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From: ica2ph@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann)
Subject: Re: Help: Truncating Decimal Types
Date: 1998/01/02
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Date: 1998-01-02T00:00:00+00:00
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Robert Dewar (dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu) wrote:
> John asks

> <<Does anyone have an easy way to extract the integer portion of a decimal
> number - short of writing a function? Seems Ada should allow this (and
> other attributes) for fixed and decimal types, but it doesn't without
> first converting the value to decimal.
> >>

> 	
> This is trivial, just convert it to a decimal type whose delta is 1.0.
> The default for such conversions is truncation. 

This is indeed new to me. It seems I have to change my mind.
I always thought that the Ada rule is most easily rememberable
in that 
   -- conversions will round,
   -- integer divisions will truncate.

puzzled

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