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robsteranium YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 5	floats and decimal places Mar 20th, 2008, 7:18pm   This question might be better directed at a java forum but here goes: Where does the following code output 0.0 rather than 0.1? int a = 100; int b = 1000; float i; i = (a/b); println(i);

movax Full Member Offline Posts: 172 Colorado	Re: floats and decimal places Reply #1 - Mar 20th, 2008, 8:30pm   try Code: i=float(a)/float(b); or Code: i=a/float(b); Its because Java is a strongly-typed language, so int/int = int.
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