Division is one of the four primary arithmetic operations. The operator / (slash) operates on two operands to produce the result.
result = numerator / denominator;result : variable. Allowed data types: int, float, double, byte, short, long
numerator : variable or constant. Allowed data types: int, float, double, byte, short, long
denominator : non zero variable or constant. Allowed data types: int, float, double, byte, short, long
int a = 50, b = 10, c = 0;
c = a / b; // the variable 'c' gets a value of 5 after this statement is executedIf one of the numbers (operands) are of the type float or of type double, floating point math will be used for the calculation.
If the operands are of float / double data type and the variable that stores the sum is an integer, then only the integral part is stored and the fractional part of the number is lost.
float a = 55.5, b = 6.6;
int c = 0;
c = a / b; // the variable 'c' stores a value of 8 only as opposed to the expected result of 8.409Corrections, suggestions, and new documentation are very welcomed. They can be contributed to the energia website repository on Github.
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