Show last authors
1 h1. Notations of Floor
2
3 In mathematics and computer science, the floor symbol represents the operation that rounds down (towards negative infinity) to the nearest integer.
4
5
6 h3. Description of this symbol
7
8 - Floor in [OpenMath|http://www.openmath.org/cd/rounding1.xhtml#floor]
9 - Floor in [MathML|http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML3/chapter4.html#contm.floor]
10 - Floor also is described in [MathWord|http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FloorFunction.html] and in [Wikipedia|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceiling_function]
11
12 ----
13
14 h3. Observations of Floor
15
16 Put your observations here...
17
18 h4. German
19
20 !floor1-de.png|align=right! On the right we find the example shows the floor function which is largest integer not greater than {html}\\(x\\){html} in the German book [Diskrete Mathematik|Census.Bibliography#diskrete-math-deEdition] page number 9, and it is called 'Ganzzahl-Funktion' in German context.
21 [Go directly to the example in google books link|http://books.google.com/books?id=Ss3wkCjLWEIC&lpg=PA117&dq=bell%20zahlen&lr&pg=PA9#v=onepage&q&f=false]
22
23 \\
24
25 h4. English
26
27 !floor1-en.png|align=right! The example on the right denotes the floor function from the English book [Mathematical constants|Census.Bibliography#MathematicalConstants] in page xix.
28 [Find the example in google books link|http://books.google.com/books?id=Pl5I2ZSI6uAC&lpg=PA28&dq=Euler%E2%80%93Mascheroni%20constant&pg=PR19#v=onepage&q&f=false]
29
30
31 \\
32
33 ----
34
35 h3. Encoding the observations of floor
36 [See encodings|http://devdemo.activemath.org/mathbridge/tools/symbolpresentation.cmd?order=by+Theory&lang=x-all&fmt=html&clipCoordinate=0&noApplet=true&omsource=%3COMOBJ%3E%3COMA%3E%3COMS+cd%3D%22rounding1%22+name%3D%22floor%22+%2F%3E%3COMV+name%3D%22x%22+%2F%3E%3C%2FOMA%3E%3C%2FOMOBJ%3E&submit=View]
37
38 \\
39
40 ----
41
42
43
44