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Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 14:43:46 GMT
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Seawolf wrote:
> 
> Do you know this one?
> Try it out :-)
> 
> void main( void)
> {
>     float f;
>     f = 55 / 77;
>     printf( "%f", f);
> }

You get 0.0000  of course.  55 and 77 are integers.  The result of
this integer division is zero which is then converted to float.

However, I agree that for novice programmers, this could be a trap
and should be changed to f = 55.0 / 77.0;

Terry