FLOOR

Section: Mathematical Library (3M)
Updated: August 1, 1992
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NAME

fabs, floor, ceil- absolute value, floor, and ceiling functions

SYNOPSIS

#include <math.h>

double floor(double x);

double ceil(double x);

double fabs(double x);

(ALSO AVAILABLE IN BSD)

double rint(double x);

DESCRIPTION

Fabs returns the absolute value |x|.

Floor returns the largest integer no greater than x.

Ceil returns the smallest integer no less than x.

Rint returns the integer (represented as a double precision number) nearest x in the direction of the prevailing rounding mode.

NOTES

In the default rounding mode, to nearest, on a machine that conforms to IEEE 754, rint(x) is the integer nearest x with the additional stipulation that if |rint(x)-x|=1/2 then rint(x) is even. Other rounding modes can make rint act like floor, or like ceil, or round towards zero.

Another way to obtain an integer near x is to declare (in C):

: double x; int k; k = x;

Most C compilers round x towards 0 to get the integer k, but some do otherwise. If in doubt, use floor, ceil, or rint first, whichever you intend. Also note that, if x is larger than k can accommodate, the value of k and the presence or absence of an integer overflow are hard to predict.

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