Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpfcla!hp-dcde!barrett From: barrett@hp-dcde.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.pascal Subject: Floating Point trunc? Message-ID: <20300001@hp-dcde.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Feb-84 17:37:00 EST Article-I.D.: hp-dcde.20300001 Posted: Tue Feb 14 17:37:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Feb-84 02:41:17 EST Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division - Fort Collins, CO Lines: 12 Nf-ID: #N:hp-dcde:20300001:000:389 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)