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Re: simple eurphoria question

• Posted by c.k.lester <euphoric at cklester.com> Dec 07, 2006
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Larry Miller wrote:
> Mike Nelson wrote:
> > 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
> A simpler method that works is:
> if x < 0 then
>     return -floor(-x)
> else
>     return floor(x)
> end if

Nice job, you guys. Thanks! :)