Dean Rasheed writes:
> Matlab just uses "nearest" for both floor() and ceil(), e.g. "the
> nearest integer less than or equal to ...".
> To me, that seems clearer than smallest/largest or least/greatest
> because you don't have to think about which set of numbers it's trying
> to exclude. When th
On 8 June 2016 at 00:11, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> =?UTF-8?Q?J=c3=bcrgen_Purtz?= writes:
>
>> > a) In my opinion this wording is easier to understand because it avoids
>> > the negation via "not less".
>>
>> That's a fair point.
>>
>> The other difference is least/greatest versus
Tom Lane wrote:
> =?UTF-8?Q?J=c3=bcrgen_Purtz?= writes:
> > a) In my opinion this wording is easier to understand because it avoids
> > the negation via "not less".
>
> That's a fair point.
>
> The other difference is least/greatest versus smallest/largest. I'm not
> sure if using least/great
=?UTF-8?Q?J=c3=bcrgen_Purtz?= writes:
> The standard says:
> " computes the least integer greater than or equal to
> its argument."
Hmm, you're looking at the SQL standard I guess. The existing wording
in our docs seems to be taken from the C/POSIX standard, which says
"[ceil(x)] shall compute
The standard says:
" computes the least integer greater than or equal to
its argument."
a) In my opinion this wording is easier to understand because it avoids
the negation via "not less".
b) To dispel the ambiguities concerning what is greater or lesser (with
negative numbers) we may add a
Michael Paquier writes:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 2:40 PM, wrote:
>> Please, check ceil, ceiling and floor functions. Example is correct, but
>> description is wrong.
> We could make things indeed more precise. Say for ceil, we use
> "smallest *following* integer", and for floor, "largest *previ
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