Today I Learned: Truncating Floats in Elixir
Wednesday August 29, 2018 at 11:35 pm CDT
originally published 4/26/2018 on the Hashrocket TIL blog
To remove everything after the decimal point in a floating-point number, use Kernel.trunc/1.
iex> Kernel.trunc(3.141)
3
iex> Kernel.trunc(-3.141)
-3
Alternatively, you can simply type trunc
iex> trunc(3.141)
3
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