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  2. Floor and ceiling functions - Wikipedia

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    Floor function. Ceiling function. 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 smallest integer greater than or equal to x, denoted ⌈x⌉ or ceil (x).

  3. Formula for primes - Wikipedia

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    A simple formula is. for positive integer , where is the floor function, which rounds down to the nearest integer. By Wilson's theorem, is prime if and only if . Thus, when is prime, the first factor in the product becomes one, and the formula produces the prime number . But when is not prime, the first factor becomes zero and the formula ...

  4. Function (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In mathematics, a function from a set X to a set Y assigns to each element of X exactly one element of Y. [1] The set X is called the domain of the function [2] and the set Y is called the codomain of the function. [3] Functions were originally the idealization of how a varying quantity depends on another quantity.

  5. List of mathematical functions - Wikipedia

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    The integral of the Dirac delta function. Saw-tooth wave. Square wave. Triangle wave. Rectangular function. 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 or −1.

  6. Numerical integration - Wikipedia

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    If f(x) is a smooth function integrated over a small number of dimensions, and the domain of integration is bounded, there are many methods for approximating the integral to the desired precision. Numerical integration has roots in the geometrical problem of finding a square with the same area as a given plane figure ( quadrature or squaring ...

  7. Prime-counting function - Wikipedia

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    All instances of log (x) without a subscript base should be interpreted as a natural logarithm, also commonly written as ln (x) or loge(x). 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). The ...

  8. Divisor function - Wikipedia

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    Sum of cubes of divisors, σ 3 (n) up to n = 250. In mathematics, and specifically in number theory, a divisor function is an arithmetic function related to the divisors of an integer. When referred to as the divisor function, it counts the number of divisors of an integer (including 1 and the number itself). It appears in a number of ...

  9. Exponential function - Wikipedia

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    Exponential functions with bases 2 and 1/2. The exponential function is a mathematical function denoted by () = ⁡ or (where the argument x is written as an exponent).Unless otherwise specified, the term generally refers to the positive-valued function of a real variable, although it can be extended to the complex numbers or generalized to other mathematical objects like matrices or Lie algebras.