CALCULUS Understanding
Its Concepts and Methods
Fractional part
The fractional part of
x
is
((x))
= x -
⌊x⌋ where
⌊x⌋
is the floor of
x.
So the fractional part of
5/3
is
2/3
and the fractional part of
-3.316
is
0.684.
The
graph of
f(x)
= ((x))
is
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