Building a
Step Function
  1. Ceiling
  2. Greatest Integer
  3. Graphing
  4. Modeling

  
Down to the Floor
The greatest integer function (or floor function) will round any number down to the nearest integer. The notation for the greatest integer function is shown at the right.

Some Examples

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