Concisely explain your answer with important computation or reasoning steps.
1. Consider the function f(x) = [x] - [x], where [x] denotes the smallest integer that is greater than or equal to x, and [x] denotes the greatest integer that is smaller than or equal to x. (That is, [x] = n ∈ Z such that n ≥ x > n-1, and [x] = m ∈ Z such that m ≤ x<m+1.)