How to divide two long variables in java [duplicate]

Question

Sorry for the basic question, I have to divide the long variable by another long variable, but it returns 0. Can any one help

long a = 3004230; long b =  6793368; long c = (a/b)*100; 

Answer 1

Literal Values and Literal Arithmatic

There are a couple of issues with that code. Firstly, non-floating point literal values are of type int by default and so 3004230 in your code is an int. To explicitly declare it a long use 3004230L instead.

Also, all arithmetic done with non-floating point literals returns an int result unless one of the variables are casted specifically to a floating point type such as float or double. As such (a/b)*100 is less than 1, and therefore is truncated down to 0 (the floating point values are just cut off). Also, even if it did return the same result you are trying to store it in a long which can not store floating point values.

So, you should do something like the following to get the real result.

long a = 3004230L; // Use the L notation to declare this literal a long. long b = 6793368L; double c = ((double)a/b)*100; /* casting one of the variables to (double) means the result will not be 0 */ 

I hope this helps.

Answer 2

final long a = 3004230; final long b = 6793368; final double c = ((double) a / b) * 100; 

=> c = 44.22298335670907