Re: How to do floating point division?

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From: Gerard Krupa
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 00:00

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Jules <julius@clara.net> wrote in message
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>Dear all, I want to do a const line like this in C++:
>
>const float pi = 22/7;
>
>but '/' will only return an int, so how do I have a float to store in pi?

Try const float pi = 22.0 / 7.0.

Of course it would be better to put
const float pi = 3.141592 (since it's *far* more accurate - 22/7 returns
3.142857).

    Gerard Krupa

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Date: 1999/02/22
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