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ceiling to round up vs floor is used to round

These two phrases are related to mathematical rounding, but they are not directly comparable. 'Ceiling to round up' is not a common phrase in English, while 'floor is used to round' is incorrect. The correct phrase should be 'round up to the nearest whole number' or 'round down to the nearest whole number.'

Last updated: March 17, 2024 • 491 views

ceiling to round up

This phrase is not commonly used in English.

The correct phrase should be 'round up to the nearest whole number.'
  • CEILING to round up in Excel. 7.09.15. CEILING function to round up figures in Excel. On one our recent Excel 2013 training courses one of the delegates posed  ...
  • Ceiling to round up. Math.Ceiling(0.5); // 1. Use Math.Round to just round. Math. Round(0.5, MidpointRounding.AwayFromZero); // 1. And Math.
  • Aug 10, 2012 ... Simply modify the above formulas to replace round with ceiling to round up or floor to round down: Round up to the nearest 100. ceiling(value ...
  • Jun 25, 2013 ... You can use “Ceiling” to round up and “Floor” to round down. Being able to round to specific digits would be helpful though. Scott Overall.

Alternatives:

  • round up to the nearest whole number

floor is used to round

This phrase is incorrect in English.

The correct phrases should be 'round down to the nearest whole number.'
  • Floor is used to round down. Truncate just cuts. Ceiling rounds up – Michael Blake Mar 30 '11 at 16:15. 1. @Xaisoft: Floor always rounds down, ...
  • Definition: Floor is used to round a number down to the last whole number. Any number with even the highest decimal is rounded down. This is the opposite of ...
  • In Matlab (like Octave) the math is done floating point, then rounding to integer, so that 1/2 will be always 1 and never 0. A 'floor' is used to round the number.
  • The following examples will be based on the following data model. Imagine you work for a telephone company and you are in change of the Help Desk to assist ...

Alternatives:

  • round down to the nearest whole number

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