Division Calculations

Hi guys,

I recently came across an error in my programs. When completing a calculation such as 4 / 3 it automatically returns 1, even if I include it in a double. Please tell me how to get around this problem. It is an essential to my code

Regards and thanks in advance,
Regards,

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Originally Posted by mintsmike

When completing a calculation such as 4 / 3 it automatically returns 1, even if I include it in a double.

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That is because you are still doing integer division although the result is stored in a double variable. The solution is to make at least one of the operands be a double, or you can type cast.

Thank you very much.

I would now like to know how to give it to a certain degree of accuracy or a certain number of decimal points

Regards

double is 15 digits, float is 6. If you want to set the places seen by say std::cout then look for the function std::setprecision (I think that's the one).