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.

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 …

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

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.

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 …

Jun 10, 2013 · The PGFmath package includes a ceil and a floor function. The pgfplots offers a few options for Constant Plots (see manual v1.8, subsection 4.4.3, pp. 57ff.). The option jump …

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 …

Sep 29, 2023 · The height of the floor symbol is inconsistent, it is smaller when the fraction contains a lowercase letter in the numerator and larger when the fraction contains numbers or …

If you try asking Wolfram Alpha to differentiate the floor function, it will just output "Floor' (x)". If you force Wolfram Alpha to plot the derivative of the floor function, I think what Wolfram Alpha …

But generally, in math, there is a sign that looks like a combination of ceil and floor, which means round, aka nearest integer. Is there a way to draw this sign in Latex's math mode?