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A right ceiling bracket delimiter that pairs with \lceil to enclose expressions for the ceiling function in number theory.

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Examples

Ceiling function notation

\lceil x \rceil = \text{smallest integer } \geq x

Specific ceiling calculation

\lceil 3.14 \rceil = 4

Ceiling in an expression

\lceil \frac{n}{2} \rceil + 1