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Re: why is 1/8 =0 ? [message #2062]

Sat, 21 May 1994 11:41

olsen
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Registered: March 1994

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In article j42@news.service.uci.edu, vshvetsk@fourier.oac.uci.edu (Victor Shvetsky) writes:
> I am justr wondering- I just found out after trying to debug the program for three hours
> that: 1/8 gives 0 in IDL unless you say: 1/8.0
> Is it such a well-known fact?
...
> Victor
>

Well known to fortran programmers, anyway - integer divide gives the CORRECT
integer result - if you want floats, you need to 'declare' them so.

rc olsen
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