The Go programming language uses the Floor
function to find the rounded-down or the floor value of a decimal number.
To use this function, you must import the math
package in your file and access the Floor
function within it using the .
notation (math.Floor
). Here, Floor
is the actual function, while math
is the Go package that stores the definition of this function.
The definition of the Floor
function inside the math
package is:
Floor
function takes a single argument of type float64. This argument represents the number you need to round down.
The Floor
function returns a single value of type float64. This value represents the value of the argument rounded down to the nearest whole number.
An exception to the above statements is when you pass as an argument something that is infinity, NAN
or 0:
(±)Inf
: If the argument has an infinite value, the return value will be exactly the same as the argument.
NAN
: If a NAN
argument is passed, the return value is also NAN
.
(±)0
: If the argument passed is (±)0
the return value will be exactly the same as the argument.
Following is a simple example where we find out the floor value of 25.1
:
package mainimport ("fmt""math")func main() {x := 25.1y := math.Floor(x)fmt.Print(x, " is rounded down to ", y, " using Floor")}
The following example shows how the Floor
function handles infinite valued arguments, for which we use the Inf
function:
The
Inf
function returns an infinite value with a sign matching the sign of the argument that it is given.
package mainimport ("fmt""math")func main() {x := math.Inf(-1)y := math.Floor(x)fmt.Print(x, " is rounded down to ", y, " using Floor")}
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