Hi,
Why can you put integer values into a float variable and there is no error? maybe I am confused about float ranges but I thought it only contained decimals.
I had two integers, 10 and 3, and tried to divide them to get a result as 3.333 by having the total as a float variable. However, it only returned 3.000.
But, when I declared 10 and 3 as float, I got the result I looked for.
Can someone clarify the possible values you can store in:
integer
double
float
Thanks
integers are whole numbers. The integer part of 10/3 is 3
floats and doubles are the same, except for range and precision (doubles have more of both, compared to floats).
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So what is the proper way to do 10/3 to get a decimal result?
Is it to store 10 and 3 as floats or is it to use the casting method: a = (float) 10/3?
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Try 10/3.0
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.
The result is a float when any one of the numerator or denominator is a float. So you can do something like this to get float value.
10.0/3 or 10/3.0
The other way is to cast as you have shown.
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>> The other way is to cast as you have shown.
Cool! So I can have my integer result pointlessly made into a floating point number.
