[RFC] We need an ENTIER that does ceil, CENTIER?

Remington Furman remington@remcycles.net
Sat May 16 15:21:11 GMT 2026


On 5/16/26 7:35 AM, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:

>> We still need an operation to round up. I’d really love to use “arriba” for that.
>> But I realize not everybody is a goofy as I am.
> Sure we Spaniards can be chouvinist too ;)
>
> But I would really introduce CEIL and FLOOR instead, the second being a
> synonym for ENTIER.

I sometimes reach for Spanish when all the English words are taken.  :)

For example, I use this Bash function to make the "find" command easier 
to use for the simple case.

     busca () { find . -iname "*${1}*" }

-Remington
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