Is there any way to convert an int to a float ?

[Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan]

Hi
Is there any way to convert an int to a float directly ?

int a=5;
int b=6;
System.out.println( what-do-to-here(a/b) );

Thanks

[Prashanth Lingala]

class Conversion
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
int a = 5;
int b = 6;
System.out.println((float)a/b);
}
}

[Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan]

Thanks

[marc weber]

Note that (float)a/b = 0.8333333, but (float)(a/b) = 0.0.

In the first case, int a is cast as a float, which in turn causes b to be converted as well, since all operands are converted to the widest type (at least int) before the operation is performed.

But in the second case, the division is performed on ints, and the result --which is already truncated to an int -- is then cast to type float.
[ February 18, 2005: Message edited by: marc weber ]