Floor and ceiling functions - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange Is there a convenient way to typeset the floor or ceiling of a number, without needing to separately code the left and right parts? For example, is there some way to do $\\ceil{x}$ instead of $\\lce
Big floor symbols - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange A LaTeX-y way to handle this issue would be to define a macro called, say, \floor, using the \DeclarePairedDelimiter device of the mathtools package With such a setup, you can pass an optional explicit sizing instruction -- \Big and \bigg in the example code below -- or you can use the "starred" version of the macro -- \floor* -- to autosize