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Re: Print, 34000/340000 results 0? what ́s wrong? [message #38917]

Mon, 05 April 2004 07:57

James Kuyper
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Registered: March 2000

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Thomas Nehls wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I tried to calculate something and found out that something must be
> wrong... I also tried Float and so on...

Nothing's wrong; according to the rules for integer arithmetic,
34000/340000 is 0, so it printed out exactly the correct result. If you
divided 34000.0/340000, then it should give you a 0.1. But you said that
you tried Float, and it didn't work? Perhaps you tried one of the
following:

PRINT,FLOAT(34000/340000)
PRINT,FORMAT="(F)",34000/340000

Neither of those would give you what you want. The division occurs
first, producing a 0, which is then converted to floating point. On the
other hand:

PRINT,FLOAT(34000)/340000

should do precisely what you want.

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