Re: converting decimal to integer

[Andreas Vögele]

Aurelien Chanudet aks:

> How can I convert a decimal number to an integer number in Guile ? I 
> need the following statement to work :
>
> (vector-ref <some vector> (<function I'm looking for> 1.0))

(inexact->exact 1.0) or, more general, (inexact->exact (truncate z))

See section "6.4 Numbers" in Dybvig's book "The Scheme Programming 
Language" for details. The book is now available online at 
<http://www.scheme.com/tspl/).