Re: How to do floating point division?

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From: Robert Scurr
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++:
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>const float pi = 22/7;
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>but '/' will only return an int, so how do I have a float to store in pi?
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>Thanks,
>            Jules
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>*There is not enough darkness to extinguish the light of a small candle*
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It has been a couple of years so could be wrong, but isn't Pi difined in
math.h???????  If so wouldn't using that be a lot simpler?

Bob

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From: "Robert Scurr" <news@scurr.clara.net>
Subject: Re: How to do floating point division?
Date: 1999/02/22
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