Floor()

Description

FUNCTION: floor(number)

Returns the largest integer less than or equal to number. number may be a floating point number, and an integer result is returned.

Related Topics: ceil(), fdiv(), mod(), round(), trunc().

Examples

> say floor(5)

You say "5"

> say floor(5.2)

You say "5"

> say floor(5.8)

You say "5"

> say floor(-5)

You say "-5"

> say floor(-5.2)

You say "-6"

(--Soylent 00:57, 3 December 2005 (EST))