Why is there no ceil(float) in Java?

Question

Suppose I would like to round up float to int in Java.
For instance,

roundUp(0.2) = 1
roundUp(0.7) = 1
roundUp(1.3) = 2
...

I would like to call Math.ceil and Math.round to do that but java.lang.Math does not provide ceil(float). It provides only ceil(double). So my float is promoted to double silently, ceil(double) returns double and round(double) returns long while I need to round up float to int (not long).

Now I wonder why java.lang.Math has only ceil(double) and does not have ceil(float).

Solution

You can do:

value = (int) Math.ceil(value);

If you know that value is a float then you can cast the result back to float or int.

It makes no sense for the Java library to provide both ceil(float) and ceil(double) as all float arguments can be passed to the ceil(double) method with the same result.

Comments

[Simeon Visser]

@PeterLawrey: thanks, I've updated the answer as the question is indeed about obtaining an int.

[Michael]

I would like to avoid castings. It does not look safe.

[Vishy]

In which case you may not way to turn it back into a float ;)

[Vishy]

@Michael You cannot turn all possible float values into an int or long so it shouldn't look safe. ;) BTW ceil(float) would still have to return a float so it doesn't avoid any casting.

[Michael]

I mean that if ceil(float) had returned float I would have called round(float) to get int w/o any casting: e.g. round(ceil(0.3f))