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C programming division
probably my question is very simple and stupid.
I would like to store the value of a division, in particular 1 / x where x is a
integer value.
int x = 17;
double result = 1/x;
I try to do it but I always get 0.000000 ... I try to enter a value fixed in x, for example 1/17 but always get the same value .. what's Wrong?
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Non-standard analysis. In the hyperreal numbers and the surreal numbers, division by zero is still impossible, but division by non-zero infinitesimals is possible.
The division of any integer by zero is meaningless.
In mathematics, division by 0 is undefined. Because of this, Python will issue the above error when your code tries to accomplish this undefined expression.
In case of double/float division, the output is Infinity, the basic reason behind that it implements the floating point arithmetic algorithm which specifies a special values like “Not a number” OR “infinity” for “divided by zero cases” as per IEEE 754 standards.
You are doing integer division.
Try the following and it will work as expected:
int x = 17;
double result = 1.0 / x;
The type of the 1 in the expression you have above is int, and the type of x is int. When you do int / int, you get an int back. You need at least one of the types involved to be floating point (float or double) in order for floating point division to occur.
Unlike in Mathematics, division in C++ can either refer to truncated integer division (what you did) or floating point division (what I did in my example). Be careful of this!
In my example, explicitly what we have is double / int -> double.
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