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Scilab Help >> Elementary Functions > Floating point

Floating point

  • ceil — round up
  • clean — cleans matrices (round to zero small entries)
  • double — converts inttype integers or booleans into decimal encoding
  • fix — round towards zero
  • floor — round down
  • format — set the default output format of decimal numbers
  • frexp — dissect floating-point numbers into base 2 exponent and mantissa
  • ieee — set floating point exception mode
  • int — round towards zero
  • isinf — tests for infinite elements
  • isnan — check for "Not a Number" entries
  • nearfloat — get previous or next floating-point number
  • nextpow2 — next higher power of 2.
  • number_properties — determine floating-point parameters
  • round — round to nearest integer
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