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From: barrett@hp-dcde.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.pascal
Subject: Floating Point trunc?
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Date: Tue, 14-Feb-84 17:37:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 14 17:37:00 1984
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Nf-From: hp-dcde!barrett    Feb 14 14:37:00 1984

Ok.  I have a nitty gritty pascal question for people.

All I want to do is to remove the fractional part of a real number,
in a machine-independent fashion using vanilla J&W pascal only. 
You are NOT allowed to generate an integer during the calculation, ala
 
 real_value := trunc(real_value);   { integer overflow may occur }

			any ideas?

						Dave Barrett
						(hp-dcd!barrett)