Hi Paul
Well for numbers of absolute magnitude less than 2,147,483,647 (i.e., within
the range of the integer datatype) you can do this:
>> to-integer 47.2393
== 47
HTH
-Larry
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Subject: [REBOL] Truncation
> How do you truncate a number. For example if I have the following:
>
> num: 47.2393
>
> How do I get just the 47. I want to return only the first part before the
> decimal and do NOT want to round the number.
>
> Paul Tretter