Re: Blow me away, (long) does not truncate.

From: Roedy Green (look-on_at_mindprod.com.invalid)
Date: 06/01/04 

Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 16:38:56 GMT

On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 09:41:47 +0100, Yu SONG <tips@mi6.gov.uk> wrote or
quoted :

>The rules are here:
>http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/conversions.doc.html#25363

The rules are ambiguous.

They say they "round toward 0" which could mean ether truncation
toward 0 or rounding toward 0.

In their example they say:

System.out.print("cast to int rounds toward 0: ");
d = 12345.6;
System.out.println((int)d + " " + (int)(-d));

produces the output:

cast to int rounds toward 0: 12345 -12345

I ran the test and it indeed truncates.

Which suggests they mean truncation.

Yet the example I ran shows it sometime does rounding.

The mystery is explained at http://mindprod.com/jgloss/truncation.html 

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