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zach.gold YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 22	division that returns a value less than one Aug 5th, 2008, 9:53pm   Whenever I perform division that returns a value less than one, processing returns zero.  Even if I use float, it returns 0.0.  For example: void draw(){  print(1/2);  noLoop(); } returns 0, rather than .5.  What's up?

JohnG Ex Member

Re: division that returns a value less than one Reply #1 - Aug 5th, 2008, 11:44pm   You're dividing integers, not floating point numbers. When you have an integer on both the top and bottom, it returns an integer, that is a whole number. If you want numbers with decimal points in, either the top or bottom needs to be a float (IIRC, might be just the bottom) so what you want is: Code: void draw() { println(1/2); println(1/2.0); println(1.0/2); println(1.0/2.0); }