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B_WE
devide the dividend by an higher divisor
Apr 21st, 2007, 4:55pm  
everytime i want to devide a dividend by an higher divisor i will get as result called "0".

example:
float t;
t = 50/400;
println(t); //print result "0.0"

how can i made the result be correct with decimal places?
thanks in advanced.
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JohnG
Re: devide the dividend by an higher divisor
Reply #1 - Apr 21st, 2007, 5:19pm  
You need to make sure processing knows that the numbers you're dividing are floats, and not integers.

In your example, even though 't' is a float, 40 and 100 are integers, and so it'll do an integer divide, not a floating point one.

What you need to do is explicitly make one part of the sum a float:

float t=40.0/100;
or
float t=(float)40/100;
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B_WE
Re: devide the dividend by an higher divisor
Reply #2 - Apr 21st, 2007, 7:04pm  
thank you.
works fine.
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