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

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wouldn't want to muddy the waters, but....<g>

Seems to me that the behavior of integer conversion functions or whatever is
implementation dependent--no right or wrong.  If I remember correctly, the
first version of BASIC I fooled around with at home had INT and TRUNC. INT
rounded and TRUNC didn't. 

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Joel Fritz  





> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laskosky, Matt [mailto:MLaskosk@kmart.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 3:37 AM
> To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: int(-8.9)=-9 or -8
> 
> 
> And Perl returns -8, and according to my instructor this is 
> correct since
> the function of %int(-8.9) is to return the integer value of 
> the number w/o
> first rounding the number.
> 
> Who's right? 
> 
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