[RFC] We need an ENTIER that does ceil, CENTIER?

Jose E. Marchesi jemarch@gnu.org
Fri May 15 21:07:42 GMT 2026


Sooo, I found this in the PDP-11 ALGOL 68S manual:

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# Two flavors of real-to-integer conversion #

round	1.6	yields	2	proc (real) int
entier	1.6	yields	1	proc (real) int
round	-1.4	yields	-1
entier	-1.4	yields	-2
----

They use ROUND for ceil.

I suggest we do the same, as there is at least some established
tradition about it..


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