Fractional part
The fractional part of a real number 
, usually denoted 
, is equvalent to removing the integer part of . Thus ![$\{x\} = x - [x]$](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/c/0/a/c0a4dbcb3459bcb0a51bd0f72efb25e52a26fbf2.png)
, where ![$[x]$](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/b/c/e/bceb7b14e55d33a8bca29b7863ad3cdae95afce4.png)
denotes the floor function. For positive numbers, this is equivalent to taking "everything after the decimal point," but this is not true for negative numbers. For example,
The fractional part function has the real numbers as its domain and the interval 
as its range.
