I wanted to follow up on Jeffrey’s post and one of the comments. It has to do with this example:<\/p>\n
The reason that we get a double rather than an int is because of precedence. The conversion has a higher precedence than the division operation, so what<\/p>\n really<\/em> means is:<\/p>\n “Convert 1 to an integer and then divide by 2”, which will result in a double (0.5). If we really want our results to be an integer, we should do the following:<\/p>\n which first<\/em> does the division and then<\/em> converts to an integer. Viola, we get what we want!<\/p>\n Jim Truher [MSFT] I wanted to follow up on Jeffrey’s post and one of the comments. It has to do with this example: PS> [int]1\/20.5 The reason that we get a double rather than an int is because of precedence. The conversion has a higher precedence than the division operation, so what [int]1\/2 really means is: “Convert 1 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" I wanted to follow up on Jeffrey’s post and one of the comments. It has to do with this example: PS> [int]1\/20.5 The reason that we get a double rather than an int is because of precedence. The conversion has a higher precedence than the division operation, so what [int]1\/2 really means is: “Convert 1 […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}PS> [int]1\/2
0.5 <\/code><\/p>\n[int]1\/2<\/code><\/p>\n[int](1\/2)<\/code><\/p>\nPS> [int](1\/2)
0 <\/code><\/p>\n
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