Thread: Hi guys, newbie here, some questions!

You need to understand about how division works.
There are two types of numbers in C. One is integers, whole numbers. One is floating point, decimal numbers.
If you need/want the decimals, you need to make sure one variable is a floating point. You can do it via a simple cast.

Then, you need to tell printf that it's actually printing a floating point number. This can be done via %f.

So, all in all, it might look like:

Code:

float word_average = (float)letter_count/word_count;
printf("%f", word_average);