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Re: simple eurphoria question

• Posted by c.k.lester <euphoric at cklester.com> Dec 05, 2006
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Alexander Toresson wrote:
> Evan Marshall wrote:
> > john thomas wrote:
> > > 
> > > can someone please tell me how to get the integer part of a number in an
> > > atom
> > > in order to assign it to an integer variable
> > 
> > atom x
> > integer y
> > x = 1.1
> > 
> > y = floor(x)
> 
> Yes, that will get the integer part of positive numbers, but it won't get the
> integer part of negative numbers. For example, -1.1 will be rounded down to
> -2. I'm afraid you'll have to use some if statements to make it work for
> negative
> numbers too (ie if it's a negative number, do the opposite of floor(), which
> could be named roof() and be a new function you could implement).

I wrote a function just for this purpose. It's called
round_this_number_toward_zero_remember_that_negative_numbers_are_screwy().

I sometimes wonder if it's worth typing all that out just for

if x < 0 then
   return floor(x+1)
else
   return floor(x)
end if