Barry_Cornelius@durham.ac.UK (05/11/88)
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. == Barry Cornelius == Address: Computer Science Group, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, England Telephone: My office: Durham (091 or +44 91) 374 2638 Secretary: Durham (091 or +44 91) 374 2630 Fax: Durham (091 or +44 91) 374 3740 Electronic Mail Addresses: JANET: Barry_Cornelius@uk.ac.dur.mts Internet: Barry_Cornelius%mts.dur.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu UUCP: ...ukc!cs.nott.ac.uk!bjc BITNET/EARN: Barry_Cornelius%DUR.MTS@AC.UK