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Thu Jan 24 21:34:44 CET 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-January/076462.html

>> Can anyone explain to me why we need both trunc() and int()?

> trunc() has well-defined semantics -- it takes a Real instance
> and converts it to an Integer instance using round-towards-zero
> semantics.

Since something similar is happening to math.ceil and math.floor,
I'm curious why trunc() ended-up in builtins instead of the math
module.  Doesn't it make sense to collect similar functions
with similar signatures in the same place?

Raymond

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