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Newcomers AppGameKit Corner / [SOLVED] Floating point arithmatic help please

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Richard Stevens
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2020 17:26
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I'm part way through my first 'masterpiece', and I came across a bit of an odd one when calculating something or other.. essentially it can be boiled down to:



Return 0? Surely it should return 0.5?

Sorry If I'm missing something blazingly obvious!


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Bengismo
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2020 18:06 Edited at: 23rd Jul 2020 18:07
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if you use:
X = 1.0/2

then you get 0.5 as the answer like you expected.

If you don't specify floating point literal numbers in a calculation, then AppGameKit takes those numbers as integers. The integer answer of 1/2 is zero.
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Additional note:

1.0/2 will give the same result as 1/2.0

If you use one float in your calcs, the result will also be a float ( if the result variable is a float ).


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Richard Stevens
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Thanks. I thought it must be related to something along those line, but thought as X had already been marked as a float AppGameKit would consider calculations performed on it as float. I guess not !

Thanks, all working now.
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