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Re: simple eurphoria question

• Posted by Mike Nelson <mikestar13 at sbcglobal.net> Dec 07, 2006
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c.k.lester wrote:

> 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

This is not quite correct. if x is say, -2, it will return -1 rather than the
correct -2.

This will work:

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