Re: [ROOT] Integer Division Error

From: Stephan Witoszynskyj (stephan.witoszynskyj@cern.ch)
Date: Mon Nov 18 2002 - 16:01:52 MET

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To me this seems to be the normal behavior of C.

On the righthand side there are only integers, so it does only an 
integer operation, which is then converted into a floating point number.

Regards,
   Stephan

Am Montag den, 18. November 2002, um 14:23, schrieb Steffen Grohmann:

> Hello,
>  
> I found a problem dividing integers in root. For instance, when I 
> declare:
>   Double_t x = 2/3;
> the result of x is "0". The operation only works when I write:
>   Double_t x = 2./3.;
>  
> Could you please tell me if this is "normal" behavior in root?
>  
> Regards, Steffen
>  
>
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