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 January 4th, 2013, 12:23 PM #1 Member   Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 42 Thanks: 0 Cutting off decimals Hello! Is there any good method for cutting off decimals from a number? I've been thinking about it for a while, and came up with this method (assume x is a decimal number): x - x%1 = x without decimals In the situation I'm using this method, everything looks so messy, because I reuse it several times. Is there another way to cut off decimals like this? Thanks /Benmuskler
 January 4th, 2013, 12:40 PM #2 Global Moderator     Joined: Nov 2006 From: UTC -5 Posts: 16,046 Thanks: 938 Math Focus: Number theory, computational mathematics, combinatorics, FOM, symbolic logic, TCS, algorithms Re: Cutting off decimals What are you using? In C I would write (int)x or the like. In GP I would write x\1 or floor(x). In Perl you can do floor(x) as long as you have use POSIX;.
 January 4th, 2013, 12:46 PM #3 Member   Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 42 Thanks: 0 Re: Cutting off decimals I'm sorry I might have been a bit unclear. I'm not using any programming language. It's only mathematical.
 January 4th, 2013, 12:47 PM #4 Global Moderator     Joined: Nov 2006 From: UTC -5 Posts: 16,046 Thanks: 938 Math Focus: Number theory, computational mathematics, combinatorics, FOM, symbolic logic, TCS, algorithms Re: Cutting off decimals Then I would write $\lfloor x\rfloor$, or in a pinch either [x] or floor(x).
 January 4th, 2013, 12:53 PM #5 Member   Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 42 Thanks: 0 Re: Cutting off decimals Thanks! I can't say I've ever seen the floor function written like that before, i.e. the L-shaped brackets. Is that some standard/official way of writing it that my teacher will understand when reading the work through?
 January 4th, 2013, 03:21 PM #6 Senior Member     Joined: Jul 2010 From: St. Augustine, FL., U.S.A.'s oldest city Posts: 12,211 Thanks: 520 Math Focus: Calculus/ODEs Re: Cutting off decimals Yes, your teacher should be familiar with any of the notations given by [color=#008000]CRGreathouse[/color].
 January 6th, 2013, 01:04 PM #7 Senior Member   Joined: Dec 2012 Posts: 148 Thanks: 0 Re: Cutting off decimals you can show any number x = [x] + {x}

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