In mathematics, the floor function is the function that takes as input a real number x, and gives as output the greatest
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The integral part or integer part of a number (partie entière in the original) was first defined in 1798 by Adrien-Marie Legendre in his proof of the Legendre's formula.
Carl Friedrich Gauss introduced the square bracket notati… 더 보기

For an integer x and a positive integer y, the modulo operation, denoted by x mod y, gives the value of the remainder when x is divided by y. This definition can be extended to real x and y, y ≠ 0, by the formula … 더 보기

In most programming languages, the simplest method to convert a floating point number to an integer does not do floor or ceiling, but truncation. The reason for this is historical, as the first machines used ones' comple… 더 보기

1. ^ Graham, Knuth, & Patashnik, Ch. 3.1
2. ^ 1) Luke Heaton, A Brief History of Mathematical Thought, 2015, ISBN 1472117158 (n.p.) 2) Albert A. Blank et al., Calculus: Differential Calculus, 1968, p. 259 3) John W. Wa… 더 보기