Re: Math function description issue - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Math function description issue
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Msg-id 2979.1465487937@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Math function description issue  (Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>)
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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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