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NAME | LIBRARY | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | ERRORS | ATTRIBUTES | STANDARDS | HISTORY | SEE ALSO

floor(3)                Library Functions Manual                floor(3)

NAME         top

       floor, floorf, floorl - largest integral value not greater than
       argument

LIBRARY         top

       Math library (libm, -lm)

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <math.h>

       double floor(double x);
       float floorf(float x);
       long double floorl(long double x);

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
   feature_test_macros(7)):

       floorf(), floorl():
           _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
               || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
               || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION         top

       These functions return the largest integral value that is not
       greater than x.

       For example, floor(0.5) is 0.0, and floor(-0.5) is -1.0.

RETURN VALUE         top

       These functions return the floor of x.

       If x is integral, +0, -0, NaN, or an infinity, x itself is
       returned.

ERRORS         top

       No errors occur.  POSIX.1-2001 documents a range error for
       overflows, but see NOTES.

ATTRIBUTES         top

       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
       attributes(7).
       ┌─────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
       │ Interface                           Attribute     Value   │
       ├─────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
       │ floor(), floorf(), floorl()         │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
       └─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘

STANDARDS         top

       C11, POSIX.1-2008.

HISTORY         top

       C99, POSIX.1-2001.

       The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.

       SUSv2 and POSIX.1-2001 contain text about overflow (which might
       set errno to ERANGE, or raise an FE_OVERFLOW exception).  In
       practice, the result cannot overflow on any current machine, so
       this error-handling stuff is just nonsense.  (More precisely,
       overflow can happen only when the maximum value of the exponent
       is smaller than the number of mantissa bits.  For the IEEE-754
       standard 32-bit and 64-bit floating-point numbers the maximum
       value of the exponent is 127 (respectively, 1023), and the number
       of mantissa bits including the implicit bit is 24 (respectively,
       53).)

SEE ALSO         top

       ceil(3), lrint(3), nearbyint(3), rint(3), round(3), trunc(3)

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