ceil, ceilf, ceill

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04/28/2015

Calculates the ceiling of a value.

double ceil( 
   double x 
);
float ceil(
   float x
);  // C++ only
long double ceil(
   long double x
);  // C++ only
float ceilf(
   float x
);
long double ceill(
   long double x
);

Parameters

x
Floating-point value.

Return Value

The ceil functions return a floating-point value that represents the smallest integer that is greater than or equal to x. There is no error return.

Input	SEH Exception	Matherr Exception
± QNAN,IND	none	_DOMAIN

ceil has an implementation that uses Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2). For information and restrictions about using the SSE2 implementation, see _set_SSE2_enable.

Remarks

Because C++ allows overloading, you can call overloads of ceil. In a C program, ceil always takes and returns a double.

Requirements

Routine	Required header
ceil, ceilf, ceill	<math.h>

For additional compatibility information, see Compatibility.

Example

See the example for floor.

.NET Framework Equivalent

System::Math::Ceiling

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