Help with division C#

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double x = 74/120;

Expected: 0.6166666... But the result is 0. Why ?

Posted 2-Jan-14 0:38am

Rieth L

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Thomas ktg 2-Jan-14 6:41am

Show some code you have written for this.

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Solution 5

try this

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double x = 74d/120d;

Posted 2-Jan-14 2:49am

Vinay Jade

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-02T00:41:00

Solution 1

74 and 120 are integers so the division will return an integer and then convert it to double.
Try 74.0 / 120.0

Posted 2-Jan-14 0:41am

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

Thomas ktg · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-02T00:48:00

Solution 2

You can also use cast like this,

C#

double number3 = (double)number1/(double)number2;

For more information refer here,
http://www.dotnetperls.com/divide[^]

Posted 2-Jan-14 0:48am

Thomas ktg

Updated 2-Jan-14 0:50am

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Naz_Firdouse · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-02T00:50:00

Solution 3

cast the integers to double ..you will get the expected result

Posted 2-Jan-14 0:50am

Naz_Firdouse

Karthik_Mahalingam · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-02T00:55:00

Solution 4

try this..

C#

double x = (double)74 / (double)120;

Posted 2-Jan-14 0:55am

Karthik_Mahalingam