NAME
fabs, floor, ceil, rint - absolute value, floor, ceiling,
and
round-to-nearest functions
SYNOPSIS
#include <math.h>
double floor(x)
double x;
double ceil(x)
double x;
double fabs(x)
double x;
double rint(x)
double x;
DESCRIPTION
Fabs returns the absolute value |x|.
Floor returns the largest integer no greater than x.
Ceil returns the smallest integer no less than x.
Rint returns the integer
(represented as a double precision number)
nearest x in the direction of the prevailing rounding
mode.
NOTES
On a VAX, rint(x) is equivalent to adding half to the
magnitude and
then rounding towards zero.
In the default rounding mode, to
nearest, on a machine that
conforms to IEEE 754, rint(x) is the integer nearest x with
the
additional stipulation that if |rint(x)-x|=1/2 then rint(x)
is
even. Other rounding modes can make rint act like floor, or
like
ceil, or round towards zero.
Another way to obtain an integer
near x is to declare (in C)
double x; int k; k = x;
Most C compilers round x towards 0 to get the integer k, but
some
do otherwise. If in doubt, use floor, ceil, or rint first,
whichever you intend. Also note that, if x is larger than k
can
accommodate, the value of k and the presence or absence of
an
integer overflow are hard to predict.
SEE ALSO
abs(3), ieee(3), libm(3)