Floor value in math operators

David Smith dns4 at cornell.edu
Wed Apr 8 13:08:32 EDT 2009


Avi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This will be a very simple question to ask all the awesome programmers
> here:
> 
> How can I get answer in in decimals for such a math operator:
> 
> 3/2
> 
> I get 1. I want to get 1.5
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Avi

I'm going to assume your operands are variables instead of numeric
literals.  Why not consider doing a type conversion to float or Decimal
and then perform the division?

--David



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