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I am new to C++ and I tried this simple code:
#include<iostream>
#include<math.h>
using namespace std;
int main(){
double a;
a=1/6;
cout<<a;
}
But the result is 0. As I understood, double should work with real numbers, so shouldn't the result be 1/6 or 0.1666666? Thank you!
2 Answers
In the expression 1 / 6, both numbers are integers. This means that this division will perform integer division, which results in 0. To do a double division, one number has to be a double: 1.0 / 6 for example.
Integer literals 1 and 6 have type int. Thus in the expression
1/6
there is used the integer arithmetic and the result is equal to 0.
Use at least one of the operands as a floating literal. For example
a = 1.0/6;
or
a = 1/6.0;
or
a = 1.0/6.0;
