[erlang-questions] math ceil floor

[Andrew Berman]

I would think the output type should be the same as the input type.  So
float in, float out.

FYI, Java takes a double and returns a double.

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 3:42 PM Technion <technion@REDACTED> wrote:

> Following from other languages, C's ceil returns floats, but Ruby's ceil
> returns an Integer, PHP returns a float.
>
>
> I'm seeing here there isn't a particularly accepted standard.
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> *Subject:* [erlang-questions] math ceil floor
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> Hi
> I made pull request https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/1084 which
> implements ceil and floor in the math module.
>
> The question is, should they return integer or floats?
>
> The implementation in the PR currently returns integers and also
> implements ceilf and floorf which returns floats.
>
> Opinions?
>
> /Dan
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