Converting a float to an integer in a calculation record.

[jba@aps.anl.gov (Janet B. Anderson)]

The calc record already supports NINT(), but NINT does not appear in
the calc record's list of algebraic operators in the Record Reference
Manual. Thanks for pointing out this documentation problem.

> I have an EPICS database in which all the quantities I am dealing with are
> integers. As the output of the "calculation" record is floating point, I
> need to convert the result of one of my calculations to the nearest
> integer. At the moment I am doing the conversion by channeling the output
> through a "longout" record, but it would be tidier if I could convert a
> floating point value to the nearest integer within the "calculation"
> record itself. Does anyone know a way of doing this? Will a future version
> of the "calculation" record support the "INT" and "NINT" functions? 


Janet