Why does Decimal.Divide(int, int) work, but not (int / int)?

Question

How come dividing two 32 bit int numbers as ( int / int ) returns to me 0, but if I use Decimal.Divide() I get the correct answer? I\'m by no means

Answer 1

In the first case, you're doing integer division, so the result is truncated (the decimal part is chopped off) and an integer is returned.

In the second case, the ints are converted to decimals first, and the result is a decimal. Hence they are not truncated and you get the correct result.