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Conference rusure::math

Title:	Mathematics at DEC

Moderator:	RUSURE::EDP

Created:	Mon Feb 03 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2083
Total number of notes:	14613

1545.0. "What is ENTIER?" by TLE::REAGAN (Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum) Tue Jan 21 1992 09:55

    I was reading the release notes for a product and saw a reference to
    a mathematical function I've never seen before.  It wasn't listed
    in a dictionary...  It is called ENTIER.
    
    Can someone please tell me what this is?  (The manual which used
    it didn't bother to define it for me...)
    
    				-John

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1545.1	Integer part	CIVAGE::LYNN	Lynn Yarbrough @WNP DTN 427-5663	`Tue Jan 21 1992 10:12`	4
	'Entier' is French for, I think, integer, and the entier function is best defined in the ALGOL language documentation. It's related to 'floor' and 'ceiling' functions, but I can never remember how. I think it's the same as the FORTRAN INT generic function[s].
1545.2		FORTY2::PALKA		`Tue Jan 21 1992 11:44`	8
	I believe 'entier' means 'whole'. The entier function truncates towards 0. E.g. entier(1.8) = 1 entier(-2.8) = -2 Andrew