[Qt-interest] Why 1/255 is 0 ?

[Chetan Jain]

Hi,
Check this link:
http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/Integer_Division_gives_0
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Chetan
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Hannu Shemeikka <hps at shemeikka.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Could someone explain me this:
>
> double c = 1/255;
>
> and c is 0 after watching it in debugger. It should be 0,003921569.
> I tried float and few others but no success.
>
> The real thing where I need that division is qPow((i/255),(j/1)); //
> i<255 and j<8
>
> What am I missing here? I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 and Qt 4.7
>
> - Hannu
>
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Chetan K Jain
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