Basic Math Problem.. 1 divided by 2

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BlackD (Posted 2004) [#1]

n#=1/2 Print n# On my comp, this is producing 0.0 Shouldn't it produce 0.5? WTF? :) +BlackD

mongia2 (Posted 2004) [#2]

1.0/2 or 1/2.0

BlackD (Posted 2004) [#3]

dividing to a floating point below zero only works if the input variables are floating points? News to me. Never figured that.. since n#=10/2 gives 5.. /me recodes half the friggin game so the delta timing is perfect...

Réno (Posted 2004) [#4]

n#=(10/2) gives 5 ( returns an integer ) n#=(10.0/2.0) gives 5.0 ( returns a float )

big10p (Posted 2004) [#5]

Yeah, this is happening because the 1/2 calculation is done before the result is stored in n#. Since the calculation only involves integers, the result is integer which is then converted to float and stored in n#.