On 3/20/07, Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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You seem very indignant that Perl is offering you a floating-point result -
it started giving 24.5 right at the beginning of its life! What are these
languages you have used that give only an integer result for division? I
can think of none of
Don Dukelow wrote:
I have a script where I have to divide and all I want is the hole
number, not the decimal point.
When I do
$num = 2;
$count = 49;
$count /= $num;
$count comes out 24.5, I thought I would get 24. If I wanted the
remainder I WOULD DO.
$count %= $num; which does work. When d
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 00:34, Dukelow, Don wrote:
> and this works. But every other language I've programmed in anything
> dividing with "/" you only get the hole number why?
That's because you've only used languages that aren't a very good abstraction
of the underlying machine. Many common l
