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From: hirasuna@acm.org (Michael Hirasuna)
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Subject: Re: floats to integers?
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 18:54:42 -0500
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In article <3hgfv9$468@mother.usf.edu>, gahda@wusffm.wusf.usf.edu (Ghada )
wrote:

> I'm new with Ada and I need to finish this assignment where I have to
> turn a float into an integer (i.e. 2.89 to 2) any answers from you
> gurus out there?

Since you are new to Ada, I assume that this is not a trick question and
give you the simple answer. Any numeric type can be explicitly type
converted to any other numeric type. If A is a floating point variable,
Integer (A) will yield an integer value. When converting a real type to an
integer type Ada will round. Therefore, for your example, the type
converting 2.89 will yield 3.

Here is a question that you might ask a real Ada "guru" (we prefer the
term "language lawyer"):

Is there a portable way to define a truncation function in Ada 83, which
rounds a floating point number down to the nearest integer?

-- 
Michael Hirasuna    |  hirasuna@acm.org