Trouble with Decimals? =(

I saw the Euler's thread, and i implemented a function which calculates it correctly, however my program is just turning everything to ints =(

I'm using floats for the variables that need to be decimals, but every fraction i have it calculate (ie. 1/2), it turns to a decimal first, and then adds it. I don't understand this at all.

Any help?

Posting your code would attract a far more specific response.

>> (ie. 1/2), it turns to a decimal first, and then adds it.
Do you mean it turns to an int first (like 0) and then adds it? When putting literal values into your code, if you want them to be floating point you have to indicate that they are floating point. 1 and 2 are considered integers, and integer division will be performed. 1.0 and 2.0 are considered doubles (which is the default floating point type), and so floating point division will be performed and 0.5 will be returned.

Code:

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double x, x2;

x = 1 / 2;

x2 = 1.0 / 2.0;

cout<< x <<" and "<< x2;

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It would end up printing

Code:

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0 and .5

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In other words, one is integer division and the other is floating point division.

1 / 2 is performed as integer division (because they are integer constants), THEN the result is cast to a double by the assignment.

1.0 / 2.0 is performed as floating point division (because they are float constants), THEN the result is simply assigned to the variable.

Dankeschon!

It works now: 2.71828