On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 09:58:16AM +0200, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero wrote: > I do not understand why CEIL should return an integer value. From my > point of view it should return a value of any type that is the ceil > of the parameter. Can you explain a bit better why you think result > must be integer?
I'm only casting it to an integer to ensure the number returned is a whole number without any digits beyond the decimal point. Without that, the macro would return 4.5 when executed on CEIL(3.5) instead of 4.
