🚀 go-pugleaf

That is utter stupidity.  Is it so hard for them to say "truncate."  See the
confusion they have caused.  Geez.  The spec reads like a stupid legal
document.  I never read the spec, its just a headache.  I tried to
understand 1 thing from the spec once, and I read it over and over for hours
to no avail.  Best to just test it.  WIsh they would use some common sense
and language when creating these documents...






"John McGrath [TeamB]" <ng-b@JPMcGrath.net> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 12:15:36 -0400, "CLG" <lamont_gilbert @
> rigidsoftware.com> wrote:
>
> > Since when does casting round??
>
> The Java Language Specification uses the terminology from the IEEE 754
> floating point spec.  Java uses "round toward zero" as opposed to
> "round to nearest".  What it calls "round toward zero" is often
> referred to as truncation.
>
> From JLS section 5.1.3:
>
>     ... the floating-point value is rounded to an integer value V,
>     rounding toward zero using IEEE 754 round-toward-zero mode
>    (�4.2.3).
>
> And section 4.2.3 says:
>
>     The language uses round toward zero when converting a floating
>     value to an integer (�5.1.3), which acts, in this case, as though
>     the number were truncated, discarding the mantissa bits. Rounding
>     toward zero chooses at its result the format's value closest to
>     and no greater in magnitude than the infinitely precise result.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> John McGrath [TeamB]
>
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