Dividing two integers to produce a float result

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Possible Duplicate    Why can  39 t I return a double from two ints being divided       My C   program is truncating the output of my integer devision even when I try and place the output into a float  How can I prevent this whilst keeping those to variables  a  amp  b  as integers   user box   c precision  cat precision cpp  include  lt iostream gt   include  lt iomanip gt  using namespace std   int main       int a   10  b   3    float ans    a b     cout lt  lt fixed lt  lt setprecision 3     cout  lt  lt   a b   lt  lt  endl    cout  lt  lt  ans  lt  lt  endl    return 0     user box   c precision  g   -o precision precision cpp  user box   c precision    precision  3 3 000

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Cast the operands to floats   float ans    float a    float b

[c++] Dividing two integers to produce a float result

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