👉 Truncation is a mathematical operation in computer science and data analysis where a value is truncated to its nearest integer. This can be done by rounding it up or down, depending on whether you want to round up or down. In other words, truncation is the process of taking the floor (the largest whole number less than) of a number, or the ceiling (the smallest whole number greater than) of a number. Truncation is often used in algorithms and data structures where it makes