<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>ceil</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="csound.css" /> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1" /> <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Canonical Csound Reference Manual" /> <link rel="up" href="OpcodesTop.html" title="Orchestra Opcodes and Operators" /> <link rel="prev" href="cauchyi.html" title="cauchyi" /> <link rel="next" href="cell.html" title="cell" /> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center">ceil</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cauchyi.html">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center">Orchestra Opcodes and Operators</th> <td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="cell.html">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr /> </div> <div class="refentry" title="ceil"> <a id="ceil"></a> <div class="titlepage"></div> <a id="IndexCeil" class="indexterm"></a> <div class="refnamediv"> <h2> <span class="refentrytitle">ceil</span> </h2> <p>ceil — Returns the smallest integer not less than <span class="emphasis"><em>x</em></span> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Description"> <a id="idp15260504"></a> <h2>Description</h2> <p> Returns the smallest integer not less than <span class="emphasis"><em>x</em></span> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Syntax"> <a id="idp15270728"></a> <h2>Syntax</h2> <pre class="synopsis"><span class="command"><strong>ceil</strong></span>(x) (init-, control-, or audio-rate arg allowed)</pre> <p> where the argument within the parentheses may be an expression. Value converters perform arithmetic translation from units of one kind to units of another. The result can then be a term in a further expression. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Examples"> <a id="idp15272216"></a> <h2>Examples</h2> <p> Here is an example of the ceil opcode. It uses the file <a class="ulink" href="examples/ceil.csd" target="_top"><em class="citetitle">ceil.csd</em></a>. </p> <div class="example"> <a id="idp15273184"></a> <p class="title"> <strong>Example 93. Example of the ceil opcode.</strong> </p> <div class="example-contents"> <p>See the sections <a class="link" href="UsingRealTime.html" title="Real-Time Audio"><em class="citetitle">Real-time Audio</em></a> and <a class="link" href="CommandFlags.html" title="Csound command line"><em class="citetitle">Command Line Flags</em></a> for more information on using command line flags.</p> <pre class="programlisting"> <span class="csdtag"><CsoundSynthesizer></span> <span class="csdtag"><CsOptions></span> <span class="comment">; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform</span> <span class="comment">; Audio out Audio in No messages</span> -odac <span class="comment">;;;RT audio out</span> <span class="comment">;-iadc ;;;uncomment -iadc if RT audio input is needed too</span> <span class="csdtag"></CsOptions></span> <span class="csdtag"><CsInstruments></span> <span class="ohdr">sr</span> <span class="op">=</span> 44100 <span class="ohdr">ksmps</span> <span class="op">=</span> 32 <span class="ohdr">nchnls</span> <span class="op">=</span> 2 <span class="oblock">instr</span> 1 inum <span class="op">=</span> p4 iceil <span class="op">=</span> <span class="opc">ceil</span>(inum) <span class="opc">print</span> iceil <span class="oblock">endin</span> <span class="csdtag"></CsInstruments></span> <span class="csdtag"><CsScore></span> <span class="stamnt">i</span> 1 0 0 1 <span class="stamnt">i</span> . . . 0.999999 <span class="stamnt">i</span> . . . 0.000001 <span class="stamnt">i</span> . . . 0 <span class="stamnt">i</span> . . . -0.0000001 <span class="stamnt">i</span> . . . -0.9999999 <span class="stamnt">i</span> . . . -1 <span class="stamnt">e</span> <span class="csdtag"></CsScore></span> <span class="csdtag"></CsoundSynthesizer></span> </pre> </div> </div> <p><br class="example-break" /> Its output should include lines like: </p> <pre class="screen"> instr 1: iceil = -1.000 instr 1: iceil = 1.000 instr 1: iceil = 1.000 instr 1: iceil = 1.000 instr 1: iceil = 0.000 instr 1: iceil = 0.000 instr 1: iceil = 0.000 </pre> <p> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="See Also"> <a id="idp15313448"></a> <h2>See Also</h2> <p> <a class="link" href="abs.html" title="abs"><em class="citetitle">abs</em></a>, <a class="link" href="exp.html" title="exp"><em class="citetitle">exp</em></a>, <a class="link" href="int.html" title="int"><em class="citetitle">int</em></a>, <a class="link" href="log.html" title="log"><em class="citetitle">log</em></a>, <a class="link" href="log10.html" title="log10"><em class="citetitle">log10</em></a>, <a class="link" href="opi.html" title="i"><em class="citetitle">i</em></a>, <a class="link" href="sqrt.html" title="sqrt"><em class="citetitle">sqrt</em></a> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Credits"> <a id="idp15317192"></a> <h2>Credits</h2> <p> </p> <table border="0" summary="Simple list" class="simplelist"> <tr> <td>Author: Istvan Varga</td> </tr> <tr> <td>New in Csound 5</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2005</td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr /> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cauchyi.html">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="u" href="OpcodesTop.html">Up</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="cell.html">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">cauchyi </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> cell</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>