FLOOR(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							  FLOOR(3)

NAME

       floor, floorf, floorl - largest integral value not greater than argument

SYNOPSIS

       #include <math.h>

       double floor(double x);
       float floorf(float x);
       long double floorl(long double x);

       Link with -lm.

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       floorf(), floorl(): _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600 || _ISOC99_SOURCE; or cc -std=c99

DESCRIPTION

       These functions return the largest integral value that is not greater than x.

       For example, floor(0.5) is 0.0, and floor(-0.5) is -1.0.

RETURN VALUE

       These functions return the floor of x.

       If x is integral, +0, -0, NaN, or an infinity, x itself is returned.

ERRORS

       No errors occur.  POSIX.1-2001 documents a range error for overflows, but see NOTES.

CONFORMING TO

       C99, POSIX.1-2001.  The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.

NOTES

       SUSv2  and POSIX.1-2001 contain text about overflow (which might set errno to ERANGE, or raise an FE_OVERFLOW exception).  In practice, the
       result cannot overflow on any current machine, so this error-handling stuff is just nonsense.  (More precisely, overflow  can  happen  only
       when  the maximum value of the exponent is smaller than the number of mantissa bits.  For the IEEE-754 standard 32-bit and 64-bit floating-
       point numbers the maximum value of the exponent is 128 (respectively, 1024), and the number of mantissa bits is 24 (respectively, 53).)

SEE ALSO

       ceil(3), lrint(3), nearbyint(3), rint(3), round(3), trunc(3)

COLOPHON

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								    2008-10-06								  FLOOR(3)