Use \xintFloor command from the xintfrac package. It is completely expandable, hence can even go in an \edef or other contexts needing expandability. 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 provided by package xintexpr. Notice furthermore that ...
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.
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.
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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...
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OR Floor always rounding towards zero. Ceiling always rounding away from zero. E.g floor (x)=-floor (-x) if x<0, floor (x) otherwise If gravity were reversed, the ceiling would become the floor. So from a physics standpoint the standard mathematical definition might be inadequate.
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Three people get into an elevator on the main floor of a building that has 8 floors (this building has 7 floors above the ground-level). Assuming that each of the three people will get off the elev...