Casting in mixed type calculations in C?

Posted by yCalleecharan on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by yCalleecharan
Published on 2010-04-17T21:01:25Z Indexed on 2010/04/17 21:03 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 144

Filed under:
|
|

Hi, If I define these variables:

double x0, xn, h;
int n;

and I have this mathematical expression:

h = (xn - x0)/n;

Is it necessary that I cast n into double prior doing the division for maximum accuracy like in

h = (xn - x0)/ (double) n;

I wrote a program to check the above but both expressions give the same answers. I understand that C will promote the integer to double type as variables xn and x0 are of type double but strangely enough in a book, the second expression with casting was emphasized.

Thanks a lot...

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about c

    Related posts about casting