floor() function definition

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"Dev_NuLL" <dev_null at email.com> wrote in message
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> What does floor() do?
>
> This is all I get from the python web site:
>
> floor (x)
> Return the floor of x as a real.
>
> Doesn't help much if you don't know what floor means!

returns the closest integer(but still a float) lower than the value

>>> import math
>>> math.floor(8.5)
8.0
>>> math.floor(-8.5)
-9.0