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 December 1st, 2013, 08:54 PM #1 Senior Member   Joined: Sep 2012 From: British Columbia, Canada Posts: 764 Thanks: 53 Alternate form for floor function Is there another way to express $\lceil\frac{y(x-\lceil\frac{x}{y}\rceil)}{x}\rceil$ that doesn't involve as much ceiling functions?
 December 5th, 2013, 01:00 PM #2 Member   Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 40 Thanks: 3 Re: Alternate form for floor function Let X and Y be positive integers. I'll assume X
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Re: Alternate form for floor function

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 Originally Posted by AlephUser So you found k, that's in turn the floor of Y/X
Yes, and that's of no theoretical, let alone computational use.

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