Re: simple division

On 06/12/2018 02:32, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 12/5/18 4:45 AM, Gavin Flower wrote:
>> On 06/12/2018 00:05, Geoff Winkless wrote:
>>> On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 09:13, Gavin Flower
>>> <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz> wrote:
>>>> SELECT ceil(10/4.0);
>
>>> Geoff
>>>
>> If you divide one integer by another, then it is logical to get an
>> integer as as the answer.
>
> Hmm, grab any of my calculators and divide 10/4 and get 2.5. Seems not
> everybody agrees with that logic:)
>
>
Calculators normally work in floating point (in fact, as far as I am
aware, they never work in integer mode by default) , unless you are
either doing symbolic maths or numbers that are integer based like
hexadecimal.

So your example does not contrdict what I said.