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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Help: Truncating Decimal Types
Date: 1998/01/02
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Peter says

<<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
>>

The rules for decimal are different, for good reasons.