[Python-Dev] trunc()

[Terry Reedy]

For one data point, I asked my bright 13-year-old for the 'integer part' of 3.1, 3.9, -3.1, and -3.9 and got the expected 3,3,-3,-3 (as with int()). But asking 'truncate' the same numbers or even 'truncate toward zero' got a blank stare, which did not surprise me too much as it is not a common (American) English word.

Even to adults, the word has other meanings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncation_%28disambiguation%29 Raymond