ceil()

Rounds the passed ??number?? up to the nearest, higher integer and returns that rounded-up value as result (by preserving the passed Real Number's data type for the return value though). The originally passed ??number?? itself remains untouched by this function.

Function Prototype

ceil(??number??)

Arguments

Argument Name Data Type Description
??number?? Real Number The real number to be rounded up.
[required]

Return Value

Data Type Description
Real Number Rounded-up Real Number of the originally passed ??number??.

Remarks

This functions accepts any standard unit and finalness for its argument ??number??. The return value's standard unit and finalness is identical to the passed ??number??'s one.

Examples

None yet.

See also

floor(), round(), real_to_int()

Availability

Since LinuxSampler 2.1.1.svn14.