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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonlethal Force" data-source="post: 3045333" data-attributes="member: 35788">Heh.  That's funny.  I've taught Math for a number of years now and I define rounding down as truncating.  Theyare the same thing.  Rounding up means increasing the integer portion of the number 1 number larger.Thus, making 4.3 a 4 is both rounding down and truncating.  If I may be a math geek for a second, I would say that making 4.3 a 4 and a 4.7 a 5 is called "rounding" in general, following the typical rules for rounding.  But if you make a 4.3 a 4 or a 4.7 a 4 you are rounding down (or truncating) in both cases.  You are not rounding in both cases, however!Anyway ... Dross I think is correcting.  The average person who lacks higher education degees in mathematics education is going to read rounding down as "getting rid of the part that doesn't divide evenly.  And that's really all the further we need to go!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>