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.

Aug 18, 2017 · I understand what a floor function does, and got a few explanations here, but none of them had a explanation, which is what i'm after. Can someone explain to me what is going on behind …

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 $\\ceil{x}$ instead of …

4 I suspect that this question can be better articulated as: how can we compute the floor of a given number using real number field operations, rather than by exploiting the printed notation, which …

Nov 5, 2019 · Solving equations involving the floor function Ask Question Asked 13 years, 1 month ago Modified 2 years, 4 months ago

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.

Mar 26, 2026 · Some time ago I encountered this problem in a national IMO team selection test at some stage, and cannot find the solution myself nor find it anywhere else. We wish to find the number of …

Apr 7, 2026 · I disagree with the suggested dupe closure. In this question the point is what happens to the floor function when we subtract a small amount from an integer. On the other hand, in the …

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

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 uppercase letters …