I think nearest makes more sense.  People will be really surprised when 
99999999/100000000 turns into 0.

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From: TSa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> HaloO,
> 
> just re-reading S03 I saw that it defines the Rat to Int
> conversion as truncation. Why not floor semantics like in %?
> Actually I would recommend floor semantics whenever an integer
> is coerced. With the sole exception of Num propably using
> rounding.
> 
> Regards, TSa.
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> of any mathematical being.   -- Attributed to Hermann Weyl

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