Jan 25, 2012 · Is there a convenient way to typeset the floor or ceiling of a number, without needing to separately code the left and right parts? For example, is there some way to do …

Jun 8, 2013 · Is there a macro in latex to write ceil(x) and floor(x) in short form? The long form \\left \\lceil{x}\\right \\rceil is a bit lengthy to type every time it is used.

Sep 5, 2013 · What are some real life application of ceiling and floor functions? Googling this shows some trivial applications.

The correct answer is it depends how you define floor and ceil. You could define as shown here the more common way with always rounding downward or upward on the number line. OR …

It natively accepts fractions such as 1000/333 as input, and scientific notation such as 1.234e2; if you need even more general input involving infix operations, there is the floor function …

The floor function turns continuous integration problems in to discrete problems, meaning that while you are still "looking for the area under a curve" all of the curves become rectangles.

Aug 18, 2017 · The floor function takes in a real number x x (like 6.81) and returns the largest integer less than x x (like 6). Such a function is useful when you are dealing with quantities …

This tag is for questions involving the greatest integer function (or the floor function) and the least integer function (or the ceiling function).

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The floor function (also known as the entier function) is defined as having its value the largest integer which does not exceed its argument. When applied to any positive argument it …