Re: int(-8.9)=-9 or -8

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill,

I've seen Int do different things on different machines, different languages,
etc..  I have seen it more and more common, however, for Int to simply
truncate the decimal portion and keep the integer portion.  Then you would
use a Round function if you wanted to round it.  Then again, I've seen
Int round the number, and then you had to use a function called Trunc to
truncate it *shrug*

I don't think there really is a standard yet, though, and probably there
will never be one.  So, before using Int on any machine, you should check
to see what it is actually doing first.  Round is pretty standard, but then
again, some will round -8.6 to -9, and some will round to -8.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Bill Brosch wrote:

> I thought that integer functions were always supposed to round to the
> nearest integer towards, in effect truncating any decimal portion.  8.9
> becomes 8 and -8.9 becomes -8.

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