why is 17/100 not 0.17? result 0.0?

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i writed double x = (17/100) * 888; return x . as a result 0.0 . why even if only x = 17/100 , will be as result 0.0 ? i already finished this task, but I am very interested in why this is so.

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Guadalupe Gagnon

Level 37 , Tampa, United States

3 September 2021, 21:31

Unless specified, or if the number is a decimal number, Java defaults all numbers to ints and type int can not store/carry a decimal value. If you want to have a decimal result you need to convert one of the numbers to a decimal value so that the result carries a decimal. So all of these are acceptable: 17.0/100 17/100.0 (double)17/100 17/(double100)

Gellert Varga

Level 23 , Szekesfehervar, Hungary

3 September 2021, 21:30

The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) always interprets numbers in code as int by default. 17 is an int, not a double. 100 is an int, not a double. Consequently, 17/100 will also be an int, not a double. Although when we humans look at 17/100, it means 0.17 to us, but we only need to look at the int part of that 0.17 now, and that is zero. 99/100 also equals zero. 100/100 is 1. int x = 1/2; // x==0 double y = 1/2; // y==0.0 The second line first does the division, which is 0, and then puts this int into the variable of type double, so 0 is converted to double, which is 0.0 If you want to get exactly 0.17, you have to convert one of the factors to double, for example by tricks like this: double x = (17*1.0) / 100; double y = 17 / 100.0; double z = 17 / (100+ 0.0);