MATLAB is missing one essential rounding function!

Okay, besides the normal rounding function we all know and love ("round"; rounding towards the nearest integer), we have the three special rounding functions: ceil, floor, and fix. We can use them to round towards positive infinity, negative infinity, and towards zero, respectively. But there is no function for rounding AWAY FROM ZERO.
Come on, guys. Let's complete the group of functions and get that last one defined and implemented. I need it right now.

 采纳的回答

ceilfix = @(x)ceil(abs(x)).*sign(x);
or some such nonsense name.
ceilfix(-2:0.2:2)

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function out = rafz(in)
%out = rafz(in), round away from zero
%SCd 10/26/2011
%
out = max(abs(ceil(in)),abs(floor(in))).*sign(in);
end
Now you have it! I couldn't come up with a better title, unfortunately.
Thank you Sean and Daniel -- I bow to your superior intellects!
But I still think MATLAB should add the function to their library. Similar trickery to yours can conjure "floor" from "ceil", and yet MATLAB includes both of those functions in their library.

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submit an enhancement request.
But who is going to get their answer accepted? Sean was first and had a good name. I was second and had a crappy name, but potentially a better algorithm.
Make a request: http://www.mathworks.com/support/service_request/login_servicerequests.html?targetURL=/support/service_requests/contact_support.do

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I was surprised as well that there was no 'round away from zero' function in MATLAB but eventually I figured that the solution is really simple, so I thought I'd share my findings:
ceilfix(x) = sign(x)+fix(x)
cheers

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To confirm: is that addition rather than multiplication ?
This won't work for nonzero integers:
ceilfix(1.0) = sign(1.0) + fix(1.0) = 1.0 + 1.0 = 2

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