From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Math function description issue
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Comments: In-reply-to Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 11:58:57 -0400
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Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> 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 thinking about the nearest integer, you only have to
> think about at most 2 possible values.

Hearing no objections, done that way.

			regards, tom lane


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