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From: Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Why no 'Floor for fixed point types
Date: 24 Oct 2003 12:00:21 -0400
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"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net> writes:

> type Radians is delta Pi/1000 range -Pi..Pi;
> for Radians'small use Pi/1000;
> 
> where the only integer value of the type is zero.
> 
> For type Radians what should Radians'Floor return? 

An Integer, that is the truncated value.

Hmm, I guess it needs to be generic, so you can specify which integer
type to use for the result. 

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