Is this a justified expression for the integral of the floor function? Mathematica seems to agree with me in general with saying that $\displaystyle\int \lfloor x \rfloor dx = \frac{\lfloor x\rfloor (\lfloor x\rfloor-1)}{2}+\lfloor x\rfloor \{ x \}+C = \frac{\lfloor x\rfloor(2 x-\lfloor x\rfloor-1)}{2}+C$; that is, letting $I(x) = \frac{\lfloor x\rfloor(2 x-\lfloor x\rfloor-1)}{2}$ and checking whether $\displaystyle\int_a^b \lfloor x \rfloor dx = I(b)-I(a)$ returned true for all counts, decimals included.
What exactly is preventing this from being true in general? Is the reason there is no indefinite integral due to the discontinuity in the floor function, even though Mathematica defines the definite integral along any interval?
 A: The floor function is a piecewise constant function with a finite number of discontinuities, so it is (Riemann) integrable on any interval $[0,x]$. 
Indefinite integrals $\int f(x)dx$ can be regarded as equivalent classes represented by $\displaystyle \int_0^x f(t)dt$. So the floor function does have  an indefinite integral, which can be computed by adding area of a few rectangles:
\begin{eqnarray}
\int \lfloor x \rfloor dx &=& \int_0^x \lfloor t \rfloor dt +C\\
&=& 1+2+\cdots+(\lfloor x \rfloor-1)+ \{x\}\lfloor x\rfloor+C \\
&=&\frac{\lfloor x\rfloor (\lfloor x\rfloor-1)}{2}+\lfloor x\rfloor \{ x \}+C.
\end{eqnarray}
A: Do you think your formula is true in general over complex numbers?  That is usually what Mathematica is thinking about.
A: The right term is better written as $x[x]$, fyi. As for the left term, it is slightly off. The greatest integer function acts almost entirely as a constant during within calculus. However, during integration, a series randomly appears representing the jumps created by the regular integral using it as a constant. For $x[x]$, the series is the repeated sum of all integers from $0$ to $[x]$. The series (in this case) will reduce to $\frac {n(n+1)}{2}$. Mathematica is slightly wrong or your interpretation is incorrect. The integral reduces to:
$$
x[x] - \frac {[x]([x]+1)}{2}
$$
My only conclusion is that you got your integration formula slightly off.
