Big floor symbols
A LaTeX-y way to handle this issue would be to define a macro called, say, floor, using the DeclarePairedDelimiter device of the mathtools package. With such a setup, you
''Floor'' and ''ceiling'' functions
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
How do you use floor/ceil in math, e.g. how does it work exactly?
When floor a number, you can think of it as replacing the Mantissa with $0$ $$lfloor 2.31 rfloor = 2 + 0 = 2$$ and ceil can be thought of as replacing the mantissa with $1$. $$lceil 2.31 rceil =
How to represent the floor function using mathematical notation?
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,
Adjusting the height of math floor symbol
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
How do the floor and ceiling functions work on negative numbers
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.
How to Graph Floor/Ceiling Functions in LaTeX (PGFPlots)
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
Ceiling and floor functions
What are some real life application of ceiling and floor functions? Googling this shows some trivial applications.
macros
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
How to write ceil and floor in latex?
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.