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Owing to a mistake on my part I have circulated to this group
a message containing back-numbers of the correspondence on MathLib.
This was an error.   My apologies.   The message I really wanted to send
now follows.

Alan Lovejoy has written to this group:
> Wirth does not define "entier".    But when I researched it back in 1984,
> I 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...

The language Algol 60 has a standard function called "entier".   The
following definition is taken from the "Revised report on the algorithmic
language ALGOL 60":
      Among the standard functions it is recommended that
      there be one, namely
            entier(E) ,
      which 'transfers' an expression of real type to one of
      integer type, and assigns to it the value which is the
      largest integer not greater than the value of E.
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