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From: Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: implicit promotion
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 01:44:00 +0000 (UTC)
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I feel like an idiot asking this, but why does this need a cast


float tot = (float)sum/(float)(tally->size());


Ruben