Dividing and result of zero.

dbmathis has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Monks,

The following code:

my $result = 4.25 / 1200;

Yields:

0

How do I make $result contain:

0.0035417

I tried:

$result = sprintf "0.7f", 4.25 / 1200;

That didn't work.

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Re: Dividing and result of zero. by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 05, 2009 at 00:57 UTC
`my $result = 4.25 / 1200;` Yields `0` It shouldn't, and it doesn't for me. `>perl -le"$result = 4.25 / 1200; print $result" 0.00354166666666667` [download] I tried `$result = sprintf "0.7f", 4.25 / 1200;` That didn't work. `$result = sprintf "%0.7f", 4.25 / 1200; ^ \| missing` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Dividing and result of zero. by ysth (Canon) on Jan 05, 2009 at 01:13 UTC
Perhaps you are doing this in the scope of `use bigint;` or `use integer;`? If so, don't do that then. -- Online Fortune Cookie Search Office Space merchandise	[reply] [d/l] [select]