Re: Punctuation symbols for partial cuneiform characters

From: Timothy Partridge (timpart@perdix.demon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 03 2003 - 16:17:44 EDT

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    John Cowan recently said:

    > No, indeed. Even the hopeless innumerate should be able to grasp
    > the ceiling and floor functions, however: the floor of four and a half
    > is four, whereas its ceiling is five. Some speak of rounding down and
    > rounding up respectively.

    The hopelessly innumerate might get confused with minus four and a half. The
    floor is minus five and the ceiling is minus four. (The floor goes towards
    minus infinity not zero.)

       Tim

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