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From: anton@idec.stc.co.uk (Anton Gibbs)
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Subject: Re: An Ada quiz on type conversions
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Date: Mon, 3-Nov-86 08:59:46 EST
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In article 899, on the uncertainty of integer type conversion, 
Dave Emery, concludes:

   " So the implementor can pick how he wants to round.  This strikes me as 
     a portability bug, but, on the other hand, I don't have a lot of sympathy
     for people who depend on these kinds of type conversion...."

Obtaining the integer part of a real number strikes me as a reasonable thing
to want to do in a software engineering application. How are you meant to do
this in Ada ?
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	  Anton Gibbs    <..seismo!mcvax!ukc!stc!idec!anton>
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