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From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Help needed from UNIX buff
Message-ID: <7734@gollum.twg.com>
Date: 11 Aug 90 00:24:32 GMT
References: <10936@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron)
Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA
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In article <10936@wehi.dn.mu.oz> BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz writes:
>I am currently porting (I hope) HPGLtoPS and was wondering:
>
>What does the UNIX C function rint() do?
>
>Email would be nice,
>Regards Alan

Will a Unix beige do instead??

er..

Anyway, I'd never heard of this routine before so I looked it up.
It's a new one to the man page I found it on, so it must be pretty recent.
Quoting from the SunOS man page:

...
	double rint(x)
	double x;
...
	rint() rounds {\it {\bf x}} to an integral value according to
	the current IEEE rounding direction.

There is an ieee_flags() routine which lets you set various IEEE floating
point options.  For instance, 

	ieee_flags("set", "direction", "tozero", &out);

will set the rounding direction towards zero.

Weeeeiiirrrdd..  (useful though..)
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