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.

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.

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 $\\lce...

Nov 5, 2019 · Solving equations involving the floor function Ask Question Asked 12 years, 8 months ago Modified 1 year, 11 months ago

Jan 17, 2017 · 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 …

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 …

The floor function (also known as the entier function) is defined as having its value the largest integer which does not exceed its argument. When applied to any positive argument it …

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 …

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, …

18 There are some threads here, in which it is explained how to use \lceil \rceil \lfloor \rfloor. But generally, in math, there is a sign that looks like a combination of ceil and floor, which means …