The Floor Of A Number

Floor is most often used with factor set to a round number such as 0 1 or 0 01 in order to round to a particular decimal place.

The floor of a number.

Following is the syntax for floor method. To round a number up to the nearest integer look at the ceil function. The floor at ground or street level is called the ground floor i e. To round a floating point number look at the round function.

Because floor is a static method of math you always use it as math floor rather than as a method of a math object you created math is not a constructor. In other places ground floor and first floor are synonymous leading to conflicting numbering of floors depending between different national varities of english. Floor 23 25 0 18 which results in 23 22 which is 0 18 129. In mathematics and computer science the floor function is the function that takes as input a real number and gives as output the greatest integer less than or equal to denoted or similarly the ceiling function maps to the least integer greater than or equal to denoted or.

Some say int 3 65 4 the same as the floor function others say int 3 65 3 the neighbouring integer closest to zero or just throw away the 65. 1 numeric floor numbering schemes 1 1 north american scheme 1 1 1 ussr variant 1 2 european scheme 2 common non numeric or mixed floor numbering systems 2 1 minus 2 2 additional a levels 2 3 basement b 2 4 ground. It has no number and the floor above it is called first in many places. Floor numbering is the numbering scheme used for a building s floors.

Python number method floor returns floor of x the largest integer not greater than x. X this is a numeric expression. However factor can in fact be any number of the same sign as value e g. Math floor null returns 0 not a nan.

For example and while. The floor function rounds a number down to the nearest integer if necessary and returns the result.