percentage of two int?

Question

I want to get two ints, one divided by the other to get a decimal or percentage. How can I get a percentage or decimal of these two ints? (I\'m not sure if it is right.. I\'

Answer 1

One of them has to be a float going in. One possible way of ensuring that is:

float percent = (float) n/v * 100;

Otherwise, you're doing integer division, which truncates the numbers. Also, you should be using double unless there's a good reason for the float.

The next issue you'll run into is that some of your percentages might look like 24.9999999999999% instead of 25%. This is due to precision loss in floating point representation. You'll have to decide how to deal with that, too. Options include a DecimalFormat to "fix" the formatting or BigDecimal to represent exact values.