[julia-users] Re: what name would you give to the functional 'complement' of trunc()?

2016-03-12 Thread Jeffrey Sarnoff
thank you On Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 8:15:38 AM UTC-5, Tomas Lycken wrote: > > I think stretch was a pretty good suggestion, actually. > > trunc as in “truncate” makes sense for taking 3.14 -> 3 and -2.718 -> -2; > you quite literally truncate the decimal representation of the number by > ch

[julia-users] Re: what name would you give to the functional 'complement' of trunc()?

2016-03-12 Thread Tomas Lycken
I think stretch was a pretty good suggestion, actually. trunc as in “truncate” makes sense for taking 3.14 -> 3 and -2.718 -> -2; you quite literally truncate the decimal representation of the number by chopping off the decimals. I could imagine the opposite, 3.14 -> 4 and -2.718 -> -3, as ei

[julia-users] Re: what name would you give to the functional 'complement' of trunc()?

2016-03-12 Thread Dan
trunc_to_inf and add an alias trunc_to_zero for regular trunc ?? On Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 1:49:41 PM UTC+2, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote: > > x = trunc(fp) yields fp rounded towards zero to the closest integer valued > float. > What name would you give to the complementary function, rounding away