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LK YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 7 Toronto	1 / 2 = 0 ? Sep 1st, 2009, 9:26am   I'm working with v1.0.3: float x = 1 / 2; println(x); outputs "0.0" what the... wtf? Am I missing something really stupid? ps -- I noticed this when I discovered that translate( ((1/2) * (scaleX)), 0); produced a different result than translate( ((.5) * (scaleX)), 0); playing a bit more: x = 1, y = 2; println(x/y) is correct.

Cedric YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1838	Re: 1 / 2 = 0 ? Reply #1 - Sep 1st, 2009, 9:42am   this quesion pops up once in a while http://processing.org/reference/troubleshooting/#integers you can solve it by adding .0  like float x = 1.0 / 2; println(x);
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LK YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 7 Toronto	Re: 1 / 2 = 0 ? Reply #2 - Sep 1st, 2009, 9:50am   Huh. What's *really* weird is that somehow I wrote graphics code that worked even though it seems my reasoning was completely off the mark. Interesting.