Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> writes:
> Matlab just uses "nearest" for both floor() and ceil(), e.g. "the
> nearest integer less than or equal to ...".
> To me, that seems clearer than smallest/largest or least/greatest
> because you don't have to think about which set of numbers it's trying
> to exclude. When thinking about the nearest integer, you only have to
> think about at most 2 possible values.
Hearing no objections, done that way.
regards, tom lane