Truncation is not the same as rounding!! Rounding can go either up or down, while truncation can go only down.
David Reaves On Jun 7, 2008, at 11:25 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Re: RoundingPosted by: "benjamin_cail_scott"[EMAIL PROTECTED] > benjamin_cail_scottFri Jun 6, 2008 6:51 am (PDT) > > The concept of "Rounding" does not leave it up to the user to decide > > whether to go up or down. > > > > On Thu Jun 5, 2008 5:41 am (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "stephendoty" <stephendoty@> wrote: > > > > So do you always round down? > > > > > > > > Am I doing it right? Do I have the concepts down? > > > > > You first Question: You actually can choose to round > > > up or down. Personally ,I round up, but it works either > > > way. > > > > You can control which way it works. Remember > C uses truncation to convert fractional parts > to Even an int.
