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.

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 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 …

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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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 …

Jan 21, 2015 · I can not install the mathtools package. Is there any way to create the \\ceil and \\floor macros without this package?

Jan 17, 2017 · When I write \\lfloor\\dfrac{1}{2}\\rfloor the floors come out too short to cover the fraction. How can I lengthen the floor symbols?