It’s doing integer division. You can use to_f to force things into floating-point mode: 9.to_f / 5 #=> 1.8 9 / 5.to_f #=> 1.8 This also works if your values are variables instead of literals. Converting one value to a float is sufficient to coerce the whole expression to floating point arithmetic.
The suggestions from stb and xiowl are fine if you’re looking for a constant. If you need to use existing fields or parameters which are integers, you can cast them to be floats first: SELECT CAST(1 AS float) / CAST(3 AS float) or SELECT CAST(MyIntField1 AS float) / CAST(MyIntField2 AS float)
Take a look at PEP-238: Changing the Division Operator The // operator will be available to request floor division unambiguously.
You could use… Math.trunc() (truncate fractional part, also see below) Math.floor() (round down) Math.ceil() (round up) Math.round() (round to nearest integer) …dependent on how you wanted to remove the decimal. Math.trunc() isn’t supported on all platforms yet (namely IE), but you could easily use a polyfill in the meantime. Another method of truncating the fractional … Read more
Short answer: Not likely. Long answer: Your compiler has an optimizer in it that knows how to multiply as quickly as your target processor architecture is capable. Your best bet is to tell the compiler your intent clearly (i.e. i*2 rather than i << 1) and let it decide what the fastest assembly/machine code sequence … Read more
Use the operation that best describes what you are trying to do. If you are treating the number as a sequence of bits, use bitshift. If you are treating it as a numerical value, use division. Note that they are not exactly equivalent. They can give different results for negative integers. For example: -5 / … Read more
In Python 3, they made the / operator do a floating-point division, and added the // operator to do integer division (i.e., quotient without remainder); whereas in Python 2, the / operator was simply integer division, unless one of the operands was already a floating point number. In Python 2.X: >>> 10/3 3 >>> # … Read more
This is a simple function which performs the desired operation. But it requires the + operator, so all you have left to do is to add the values with bit-operators: // replaces the + operator int add(int x, int y) { while (x) { int t = (x & y) << 1; y ^= x; … Read more
In Python 2, division of two ints produces an int. In Python 3, it produces a float. We can get the new behaviour by importing from __future__. >>> from __future__ import division >>> a = 4 >>> b = 6 >>> c = a / b >>> c 0.66666666666666663