Thread: int will work, but double/float wont?

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    int will work, but double/float wont?

    I've been working on an assignment, and it didnt take very long, but there is one slight error thats getting me completely frustrated...I want to use a double or float for 2 of the variables, so that it doesnt truncate when it calculates the average and standard deviation of a set of numbers, but average always comes out as 0 when its a double/float, and will come out just fine when its an int (except for the truncation)....does anyone see anything wrong with my code, and any help would be appreciated

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    Post a snippet of code here, I for one have no way of opening a rar file on my current PC.
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    header file
    Code:
    public:
    	int m_Sum;
    	int m_Size;
    	void StdDev (void);
    	void Display (CDC* pDC, int ww, int wh, int DispControl);
    	void Initialize (void);
    	double m_Std;
    	double m_Average;
    	int m_Minimum;
    	int m_Maximum;
    	int  m_Array[1000];
    cpp file
    [code]
    void C1DArray::Initialize()
    {
    m_Sum = 0;

    srand(time(NULL));

    int tmax = 0, tmin = 32768;

    for (int i = 0; i < m_Size; i++)
    {
    m_Array[i] = rand();

    if (m_Array[i] > tmax)
    {
    m_Maximum = m_Array[i];
    tmax = m_Maximum;
    }

    if (m_Array[i] < tmin)
    {
    m_Minimum = m_Array[i];
    tmin = m_Minimum;
    }

    m_Sum += m_Array[i];
    }

    m_Average = m_Sum / m_Size;

    }

    the output
    Code:
    case 4:		{
    				x = (ww - (15*7)) / 2;
    				y = (wh) / 2;
    				sprintf(buffer, "Average = %d", m_Average);
    				pDC -> TextOut (x, y, buffer);
    				break;
    				}
    if i output sum, its fine, if i output m_size, its fine....however, when i outputaverage its 0 when double, and perfect when int (except for the truncation which isnt exceptable )

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    >>m_Average = m_Sum / m_Size;
    Both m_Sum and m_Size are ints so, you need to cast them to make the divide keep the precision.

    >>sprintf(buffer, "Average = %d", m_Average);
    Try using %f instead of %d

    If you can't get it going, try breaking it down to a small program like this:
    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    
    int main(void)
    {
      int i1 = 10, i2 = 3;
      double f = (double)i1 / i2 ;
      
      printf ("%f\n", f);
      
      return 0;
    }
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    type casting didnt seem to work....it did the same thing if i would orginally declare sum as a double....any other suggestions?

    edit, the %f in the printf statement did the trick...however, one last problem (ive never used printf before this, so im not sure how formatting is), but the output comes out with a precision of 6 decimal points...how can i have it so it only shows 2 or 3?

    again, thank you so much
    Last edited by Jamsan; 02-27-2003 at 12:42 PM.

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    >>> have it so it only shows 2 or 3?

    %.nf where n is the desired precision, eg. %.2f for two places.
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    thank you very much

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