topic Re: Dividing 1 with 100 is 0 why? in 3ds Max Programming Forum

Dividing 1 with 100 is 0 why?

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:34:27 GMT

I have strange behaviour with maxcsript, when i want divide 1/100 he says that it is 0 do you know whre is the problem?

Re: Dividing 1 with 100 is 0 why?

Steve_Curley — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:16:00 GMT

Nothing strange about that at all. Working exactly as expected.

Re: Dividing 1 with 100 is 0 why?

jonavark — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:16:04 GMT

1.0 / 100.0

Re: Dividing 1 with 100 is 0 why?

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:30:45 GMT

still ZERO...
1.00/100.00 = 0.01

Re: Dividing 1 with 100 is 0 why?

jonavark — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:51:17 GMT

how is that zero? 🙂

Re: Dividing 1 with 100 is 0 why?

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:04:43 GMT

I am assuming the float only "floats" to the decmal places you give it...IDK you could be correct though.

Re: Dividing 1 with 100 is 0 why?

Steve_Curley — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:30:40 GMT

Guys, this IS working exactly as the help says it will.

If BOTH operands are integer, the result is integer.
If EITHER (or both) are float, the result is float.
The number of decimal places is the smallest number of places capable of displaying the result (up to a point, after which you'll get a "scientific notation" result).

You could always force the number of decimals by using formattedPrint, though unless you're trying to create fixed-width tabulated results it's not going to be particularly useful.