Rounds a float to the largest integer greater than or equal to num.

ceil/2 also accepts a precision to round a floating point value down to an arbitrary number of fractional digits (between 0 and 15).

This function always returns floats. Kernel.trunc/1 may be used instead to truncate the result to an integer afterwards.

Examples

iex> Float.ceil(34.25)
35.0

iex> Float.ceil(-56.5)
-56.0

iex> Float.ceil(34.253, 2)
34.26

Rounds a float to the largest integer less than or equal to num.

floor/2 also accepts a precision to round a floating point value down to an arbitrary number of fractional digits (between 0 and 15).

This function always returns a float. Kernel.trunc/1 may be used instead to truncate the result to an integer afterwards.

Examples

iex> Float.floor(34.25)
34.0

iex> Float.floor(-56.5)
-57.0

iex> Float.floor(34.253, 2)
34.25

Parses a binary into a float.

If successful, returns a tuple of the form {float, remainder_of_binary}; otherwise, :error.

If a float formatted string wants to be directly converted to a float, String.to_float/1 can be used instead.

Examples

iex> Float.parse("34")
{34.0, ""}

iex> Float.parse("34.25")
{34.25, ""}

iex> Float.parse("56.5xyz")
{56.5, "xyz"}

iex> Float.parse("pi")
:error

Rounds a floating point value to an arbitrary number of fractional digits (between 0 and 15).

This function only accepts floats and always returns a float. Use Kernel.round/1 if you want a function that accepts both floats and integers and always returns an integer.

Examples

iex> Float.round(5.5674, 3)
5.567

iex> Float.round(5.5675, 3)
5.568

iex> Float.round(-5.5674, 3)
-5.567

iex> Float.round(-5.5675, 3)
-5.568

Returns a char list which corresponds to the text representation of the given float.

Inlined by the compiler.

Examples

iex> Float.to_char_list(7.0)
'7.00000000000000000000e+00'

Returns a list which corresponds to the text representation of the given float.

Options

• :decimals - number of decimal points to show
• :scientific - number of decimal points to show, in scientific format
• :compact - when true, use the most compact representation (ignored with the scientific option)

Examples

iex> Float.to_char_list 7.1, [decimals: 2, compact: true]
'7.1'

Returns a binary which corresponds to the text representation of the given float.

Inlined by the compiler.

Examples

iex> Float.to_string(7.0)
"7.00000000000000000000e+00"

Returns a binary which corresponds to the text representation of float.

Options

• :decimals - number of decimal points to show
• :scientific - number of decimal points to show, in scientific format
• :compact - when true, use the most compact representation (ignored with the scientific option)

Examples

iex> Float.to_string 7.1, [decimals: 2, compact: true]
"7.1"