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Once in a while, I find myself rounding some numbers, and I always have to cast the result to an integer:
int rounded = (int) floor(value);
Why do all rounding functions (ceil(), floor()) return a floating number, and not an integer? I find this pretty non-intuitive, and would love to have some explanations!
The integral value returned by these functions may be too large to store in an integer type (int, long, etc.). To avoid an overflow, which will produce undefined results, an application should perform a range check on the returned value before assigning it to an integer type.
from the ceil(3) Linux man page.