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From: ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: implicit promotion
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 00:01:34 -0400
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On 05/29/2011 11:35 PM, red floyd wrote:
> On 5/29/2011 6:44 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
>> I feel like an idiot asking this, but why does this need a cast
>>
>>
>> float tot = (float)sum/(float)(tally->size());
>>
>>
>
> Depends. What type is sum? What is the return type of
> tally->size()?
>
>
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