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.\" Copyright 2001 Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>.
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.\" and Copyright 2008, Linux Foundation, written by Michael Kerrisk
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.TH CEIL 3 2008-08-05 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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ceil, ceilf, ceill \- ceiling function: smallest integral value not
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less than argument
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.B #include <math.h>
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.sp
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.BI "double ceil(double " x );
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.br
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.BI "float ceilf(float " x );
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.BI "long double ceill(long double " x );
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Link with \fI\-lm\fP.
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.sp
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.in -4n
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Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
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.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
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.in
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.ad l
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.BR ceilf (),
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.BR ceill ():
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_BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 600 || _ISOC99_SOURCE; or
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.I cc\ -std=c99
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.ad b
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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These functions return the smallest integral value that is not less than
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.IR x .
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For example,
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.IR ceil(0.5)
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is 1.0, and
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.IR ceil(\-0.5)
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is 0.0.
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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These functions return the ceiling of
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.IR x .
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If \fIx\fP is integral, +0, \-0, NaN, or infinite,
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\fIx\fP itself is returned.
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.SH ERRORS
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No errors occur.
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POSIX.1-2001 documents a range error for overflows, but see NOTES.
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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C99, POSIX.1-2001.
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The variant returning
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.I double
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also conforms to
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SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.
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.SH NOTES
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SUSv2 and POSIX.1-2001 contain text about overflow (which might set
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.I errno
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to
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.BR ERANGE ,
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or raise an
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.B FE_OVERFLOW
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exception).
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In practice, the result cannot overflow on any current machine,
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so this error-handling stuff is just nonsense.
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.\" The POSIX.1-2001 APPLICATION USAGE SECTION discusses this point.
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(More precisely, overflow can happen only when the maximum value
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of the exponent is smaller than the number of mantissa bits.
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For the IEEE-754 standard 32-bit and 64-bit floating-point numbers
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the maximum value of the exponent is 128 (respectively, 1024),
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and the number of mantissa bits is 24 (respectively, 53).)
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The integral value returned by these functions may be too large
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to store in an integer type
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.IR long ,
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etc.).
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To avoid an overflow, which will produce undefined results,
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an application should perform a range check on the returned value
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before assigning it to an integer type.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR floor (3),
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.BR lrint (3),
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.BR nearbyint (3),
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.BR rint (3),
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.BR round (3),
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.BR trunc (3)
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