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Houshalter on Aug 28, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: He got 1%, we can't hire him

Maybe this is a stupid question, but wouldn't that always return true? (a/b)*b just cancels out the b right? Unless there is weird floating point stuff going on.

Deestan on Aug 28, 2013 | [–]

There's not floating point stuff going on, that's why it works. :)

a and b are ints, so a/b is truncated (rounded down) before applying *b.

ajanuary on Aug 28, 2013 | [–]

It's integer maths. For example: a = 10, b = 3 10/3 = 3 3 * 3 = 9 9 != 10

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