Thread: I need some explanation why this happens

Hi, I wonder why this program works the way it does. it took some time to figure what was going on but when i did i could not really explain why.

Code:

int fruits = 45;                  /* Amount of Fruits I have to sell */
int buyers = 7;                 /* Number of buyers */
int amount_per_buyer = 45 / 7;

printf("Each buyer bought %d amount of fruits.\n\n", amount_per_buyer);

return(0);

The problems is within the division 45 / 7 returns 6 with a remainder of i guess 4 from my calculator. But it never prompts you that there was a remainder. I guess this could lead to a bug in a banking application.

Please kindly put me right. Thanks

Hello Salem, Thanks for your reply. I read elsewhere that to avoid such i can make use of other data types like Float, Double or Long double.

One common approach to representing money is to work in cents (whole numbers, using ints) instead of dollars, to avoid the precision issues associated with real types.