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In mathematics, the floor function is the function that takes as input a real number x, and gives as output the greatest integer less than or equal to x, denoted ⌊x⌋ or floor(x). Similarly, the ceiling function maps x to the least integer greater than or equal to x, denoted ⌈x⌉ or ceil(x). [1]
Floor function: Largest integer less than or equal to a given number. Ceiling function: Smallest integer larger than or equal to a given number. Sign function: Returns only the sign of a number, as +1, −1 or 0. Absolute value: distance to the origin (zero point)
Euler's totient or phi function, φ(n) is an arithmetic function that counts the number of positive integers less than or equal to n that are relatively prime to n. That is, if n is a positive integer , then φ( n ) is the number of integers k in the range 1 ≤ k ≤ n which have no common factor with n other than 1.
The asterisk on <* is used to distinguish this inequality from the familiar version of <. The <* is required for sets of numbers: If x is any real number, and { } is the null set, a<*{ } is taken to be a true statement.
The most common problem being solved is the 0-1 knapsack problem, which restricts the number of copies of each kind of item to zero or one. Given a set of items numbered from 1 up to , each with a weight and a value , along with a maximum weight capacity ,
After the -th person is killed, a circle of remains, and the next count is started with the person whose number in the original problem was () +. The position of the survivor in the remaining circle would be f ( n − 1 , k ) {\displaystyle f(n-1,k)} if counting is started at 1 {\displaystyle 1} ; shifting this to account for the fact that the ...
For example, In 1670, John Wallis used a single horizontal bar above rather than below the < and >. Later in 1734, ≦ and ≧, known as "less than (greater-than) over equal to" or "less than (greater than) or equal to with double horizontal bars", first appeared in Pierre Bouguer's work . [3]
In mathematics, the prime-counting function is the function counting the number of prime numbers less than or equal to some real number x. [1] [2] It is denoted by π(x) (unrelated to the number π). A symmetric variant seen sometimes is π 0 (x), which is equal to π(x) − 1 ⁄ 2 if x is exactly a prime number, and equal to π(x) otherwise.