Michael Everson scripsit: > Hence, these characters have perfectly correct names for their > function. And they are completely different from the half-brackets. > The floor and ceiling characters are the same height as a square > bracket just without one of the feet.
Correct. > >The name police didn't know what they were? ;-) > > The Name Police don't know anything whatsoever about mathematics as > ye well know. (Floor and ceiling function indeed. I suppose there is > an attic and basement function, and a tornado-storm-cellar function?) 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. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com "The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague." --Edsger Dijkstra
