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In article <8805091402.AA23129@harris.cis.ksu.edu> Info-Modula2 Distribution List <INFO-M2%UCF1VM.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu> writes:
>Correct.  That's all our implementation does:  "RETURN (FLOAT(x));"

But he wrote "FLOAT(CARDINAL(x))", which is not necessarily equivalent!

>>>   PROCEDURE entier(x:REAL): INTEGER;
>>>just another form of INTEGER(TRUNC(x)) ?
>
>This one is a little different.  I understand it to be the "nearest integer
>to REAL x".  So I guess it is a TRUNC with rounding.  Any REAL number with
>a fractional part >= .5 is rounded up to the next highest integer.
>Anything < .5 is equivalent to TRUNC(x).

In PIM2/3rd Ed., pg. 162, Wirth states: 

  TRUNC(x)   real number x truncated to its integral part (of type
	     CARDINAL).


Wirth does not define "entier".    But when I researched it back in 1984,
If found it to be a europeanism for "floor", which does no rounding.

Now if I could just remember where I found that piece of information...


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