Floor and Ceiling Functions

Floor and ceiling functions

Floor function Ceiling function

In mathematics and computer science, the floor and ceiling functions map a real number to the largest previous or the smallest following integer, respectively. More precisely, floor(x) = is the largest integer not greater than x and ceiling(x) = is the smallest integer not less than x.

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