Integer arithmetic in Java

[M Lang / S Railsback]

In de-bugging our first model in Java Swarm we finally figured out that:

        aFloat = (anInt) / (anotherInt);

gives aFloat a value truncated to a whole number. (We were doing
movement calculations on a 2D grid with integer coordinates, trying to
figure out why the critters ended up in the wrong places.)

Pardon my inexperience, but is that something that everybody knows? It
certainly seems like a way to introduce undetected errors...IF we
weren't blessed with Swarm probe displays and GUIs to find them!

Steve

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