| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jürgen Purtz <juergen(at)purtz(dot)de>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Math function description issue |
| Date: | 2016-06-09 15:58:57 |
| Message-ID: | 2979.1465487937@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)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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