Thread: C++ mathematics????

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    C++ mathematics????

    Code:
    int a;
    int b;
    double c;
    //in the course of the program I got a=492 and also b=492//
    c=a/b;
    And for c I get 0. How could it be??????

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    Apparently you don't have 492 for both a and b. Have you tried writing both values to the console just before the calculation?
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    Code:
    int main()
    {
    	int a = 492;
    	int b = 492;
    	double c=a/b;
    	std::cout << c << std::endl;
    	return 0;
    }
    Looks a lot like 1 to me. However, notice that you're performing integer division. To do floating point division, you'll need something like this:
    Code:
    int main()
    {
    	int a = 36;
    	int b = 492;
    	double c=(float)a/b;
    	std::cout << c << std::endl;
    	return 0;
    }
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    If you're assigning to a double, cast to a double. And use static_cast:
    double c = static_cast<double>(a)/b;
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