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admi YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 1	newb - int() vs floor() Aug 7th, 2008, 5:02pm   hi, i'm just trying to figure out the difference between int() and floor() thanks, Emmanuel

fry YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 2623 mass, usa	Re: newb - int() vs floor() Reply #1 - Aug 8th, 2008, 4:21pm   They do essentially the same thing. We have floor() along with ceil() for symmetry, and because some people know that syntax. In some languages, the difference is that floor(float) returns a float, but in Processing it returns an int, however we keep it in the API as a consistency/familiarity thing.