> On Jan 25, 2008 11:21 PM, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>... int() for making ints from the non-fractional >>portion of a float.
To me, the concept of the "integer part of a float" isn't all that well defined. It's really a property of a particular representation rather than the number itself. You think of it as a string of digits and chop off the part after the point, then turn what's left back into a number. If negative floats were represented in two's complement, for example, then chopping off the digits after the point would give a result more like floor than trunc. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
