Subject | Re: [ib-support] Re: 3 * 1/3 = 0 ??? |
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Author | Martijn Tonies |
Post date | 2002-08-30T20:50:12Z |
> When you pass 1 that is an integer (no decimal point), 3 well that is alsoan integer,
> since everything is integers, it does integer math, remember grade-schoolmath (it's
> getting tough it's ~25 years ago for me), 1 divided by 3 is 0, 3 goes into1 exactly 0
> times, with 3 remainder, since we don't care about the remainder it getsdropped, so
> we are left with 0, 0 times 3 is still 0. So 0 is, the right answer.Since when isn't INTEGER MATH real math?
>
> If we use 1.0 and 3.0 that's real math,
*g*
With regards,
Martijn Tonies
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