How do I divide so I get a decimal value?

Question

quotient = 3 / 2;
remainder = 3 % 2;

// now you have them both

In your example, Java is performing integer arithmetic, rounding off the result of the division.

Based on your question, you would like to perform floating-point arithmetic. To do so, at least one of your terms must be specified as (or converted to) floating-point:

Specifying floating point:

3.0/2
3.0/2.0
3/2.0

Converting to floating point:

int a = 2;
int b = 3;
float q = ((float)a)/b;

or

double q = ((double)a)/b;

(See Java Traps: double and Java Floating-Point Number Intricacies for discussions on float and double)

Check this out: http://download.oracle.com/javase/1,5.0/docs/api/java/math/BigDecimal.html#divideAndRemainder%28java.math.BigDecimal%29

You just need to wrap your int or long variable in a BigDecimal object, then invoke the divideAndRemainder method on it. The returned array will contain the quotient and the remainder (in that order).

Don't worry about it. In your code, just do the separate / and % operations as you mention, even though it might seem like it's inefficient. Let the JIT compiler worry about combining these operations to get both quotient and remainder in a single machine instruction (as far as I recall, it generally does).

If you initialize both the parameters as float, you will sure get actual divided value. For example:

float RoomWidth, TileWidth, NumTiles;
RoomWidth = 142;
TileWidth = 8;
NumTiles = RoomWidth/TileWidth;

Ans:17.75.

int a = 3;
int b = 2;
float c = ((float)a)/b

I mean it's quite simple. Set it as a double. So lets say

double answer = 3.0/2.0;
System.out.print(answer);