About when to use ceiling or floor notations:
“Find practical values of the two functions in series of other mathematical theories and formulas. both helps in substantiating or making them look more succinct or make them more algebraically clear. You use them when there is a need to deal with discrete values…
The floor function appears in several formulas characterizing prime numbers. ceiling or floor functions contributes to order theory or instance.
Order theory is a branch of mathematics which investigates the intuitive notion of order. It provides a formal framework for describing statements such as “this is less than that” or “this precedes that.”
In the language of order theory, the floor function is a residuated mapping… for instance people have used floor function when converting time to different formats.”
— tutor Austin Amaechi, UoL