From: Timothy Partridge (timpart@perdix.demon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 03 2003 - 16:17:44 EDT
John Cowan recently said:
> No, indeed. Even the hopeless innumerate should be able to grasp
> the ceiling and floor functions, however: the floor of four and a half
> is four, whereas its ceiling is five. Some speak of rounding down and
> rounding up respectively.
The hopelessly innumerate might get confused with minus four and a half. The
floor is minus five and the ceiling is minus four. (The floor goes towards
minus infinity not zero.)
Tim
-- Tim Partridge. Any opinions expressed are mine only and not those of my employer
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