Thread: Casting int and doubles variables

Hello,

I am having an issue with casting. See code below:

class GDPPerCapita
{
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
	// Declare variables
	int gdp = 175000;
	int population = 4000;
	double gdpPerCapita = (double)gdp/population; // = 43.75
	int gdpPerCapitaDollars = (int)gdpPerCapita; // = 43
	int gdpPerCapitaCents = gdpPerCapita - gdpPerCapitaDollars; // Should equal 75 as an int, but isn't
 
	System.out.println("GDP: $" + gdp);
	System.out.println("Population: " + population);
	System.out.println("GDP Per Capita: $" + gdpPerCapita);
	System.out.println("GDP Per Capita: " + gdpPerCapitaCents + "Dollars and " + gdpPerCapitaCents + " Cents");
 
	}
}

Desired output should look as follows:

GDP: $175000
Population: 4000
GDP Per Capita: $43.75
GDP Per Capita: 43 Dollars and 75 Cents

I was able to cast gdpPerCapita and gdpPerCapitaDollars without an issue. The problem comes when trying to get the remainder (75). I have tried

int gdpPerCapitaCents = (int)gdpPerCapita - gdpPerCapitaDollars;

And

int gdpPerCapitaCents = (double)gdpPerCapita - gdpPerCapitaDollars;

And

int gdpPerCapitaCents = (int)gdpPerCapitaDollars - gdpPerCapita;

And lastly

int gdpPerCapitaCents = (double)gdpPerCapitaDollars - gdpPerCapita;

I'm sure I am just doing something slightly wrong here, as i have never tried to use arithmetic operators on casted variables. Uber confusion here, any help appreciated.

The problem comes when trying to get the remainder (75).

again the issue is when trying to find the remainder of gdpPerCapita - gdpPerCapitaDollars in int form. It should come to 75, but when i try run the program with any of these for the value of gdpPerCapitaCents

int gdpPerCapitaCents = (int)gdpPerCapita - gdpPerCapitaDollars;

And

int gdpPerCapitaCents = (double)gdpPerCapita - gdpPerCapitaDollars;

And

int gdpPerCapitaCents = (int)gdpPerCapitaDollars - gdpPerCapita;

And lastly

int gdpPerCapitaCents = (double)gdpPerCapitaDollars - gdpPerCapita;

It will either not compile, or it will give me a value of 0, or it will give me this error:

GDPPerCapita.java:10: error: possible loss of precision
	int gdpPerCapitaCents = (double)gdpPerCapita - (double)gdpPerCapitaDollars;
	                                             ^
  required: int
  found:    double
1 error

If I'm just explaining my issue incorrectly I'm sorry, trying the best i can i guess.

Yes that makes perfect sense. When i try to keep gdpPerCapitaCents as type int (as I'm instructed in my assignment for school, unfortunately) and declare the value of it as gdpPerCapita - gdpPerCapitaDollars:

class GDPPerCapita
{
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
	// Declare variables
	int gdp = 175000;
	int population = 4000;
	double gdpPerCapita = (double)gdp/population; // = 43.75
	int gdpPerCapitaDollars = (int)gdpPerCapita; // = 43
	int gdpPerCapitaCents = gdpPerCapita - gdpPerCapitaDollars;
 
	System.out.println("GDP: $" + gdp);
	System.out.println("Population: " + population);
	System.out.println("GDP Per Capita: $" + gdpPerCapita);
	System.out.println("GDP Per Capita: " + gdpPerCapitaDollars + " Dollars and " +
	gdpPerCapitaCents + "Cents" );
 
	}
}

This is the error that i get:

GDPPerCapita.java:10: error: possible loss of precision
	int gdpPerCapitaCents = gdpPerCapita - gdpPerCapitaDollars;
	                                     ^
  required: int
  found:    double
1 error

Even when i declare gdpPerCapitaCents into type double (which is not how my i am instructed to complete this assignment), the output is:

GDP: $175000
Population: 4000
GDP Per Capita: $43.75
GDP Per Capita: 43 Dollars and 0.75Cents

When in the final line, should read "43 Dollars and 75 Cents", that is why the variable gdpPerCapita needs to be an int so that i can ditch the decimal point. Again I'm trying to explain this as best i can with the limited knowledge that i have in all of this. If I'm missing something that will help you help me please let me know.

If you're getting 0.75 as a double value. What do you need to multiply that by to get 75.0? Then store as an int and you get...?

You're nearly there.

So here's the part of the assignment to initialize gdpPerCapitaCents:

Declare an 'int' type variable called 'gdpPerCapitaCents' and assign it only the "cents" part of the value from 'gdpPerCapita'. So if the 'gdpPerCapita' = 43.75, then 'gdpPerCapitaCents' should contain 75. [Note: Do NOT "hard-code" its value as "75". Instead, compute that value from an arithmetic expression using 'gdpPerCapitaDollars' and 'gdpPerCapita'].

This is where i am having trouble.

--- Update ---

The part i don't understand is how to have my gdpPerCapitaCents variable set as an int, then take the value of one double, and one int to get a final value of an int. I have been sitting trying to cast int or double into the expression with zero success, or try rearranging from (gdpPerCapita - gdpPerCapitaDollars) to (gdpPerCapitaDollars - gdpPerCapita) with a very familiar NO success. I've tried googling how to cast from an int to a double, and vice versa but i just feel as if i have hit a wall here, and it hurts haha.

What is .75 multiplied by 100?
How would you work that into your equation?

Ok please tell me i am close here. I got it to compile and run. I used gdpPerCapitaCents as a double:

class GDPPerCapita
{
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
	// Declare variables
	int gdp = 175000;
	int population = 4000;
	double gdpPerCapita = (double)gdp/population; // = 43.75
	int gdpPerCapitaDollars = (int)gdpPerCapita; // = 43
	double gdpPerCapitaCents = (gdpPerCapita - gdpPerCapitaDollars) * 100;
 
	System.out.println("GDP: $" + gdp);
	System.out.println("Population: " + population);
	System.out.println("GDP Per Capita: $" + gdpPerCapita);
	System.out.println("GDP Per Capita: " + gdpPerCapitaDollars + " Dollars and " +
	gdpPerCapitaCents + " Cents" );
 
	}
}

And that makes sense, and gives me the output like this:

GDP: $175000
Population: 4000
GDP Per Capita: $43.75
GDP Per Capita: 43 Dollars and 75.0 Cents

It still has the decimal, but i know i could get rid of it by doing this:

class GDPPerCapita
{
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
	// Declare variables
	int gdp = 175000;
	int population = 4000;
	double gdpPerCapita = (double)gdp/population; // = 43.75
	int gdpPerCapitaDollars = (int)gdpPerCapita; // = 43
	double gdpPerCapitaCents = (gdpPerCapita - gdpPerCapitaDollars) * 100;
	int gdpCentsInt = (int)gdpPerCapitaCents; // Make the double variable into an integer
 
	System.out.println("GDP: $" + gdp);
	System.out.println("Population: " + population);
	System.out.println("GDP Per Capita: $" + gdpPerCapita);
	System.out.println("GDP Per Capita: " + gdpPerCapitaDollars + " Dollars and " +
	gdpCentsInt + " Cents" );
 
	}
}

To get this output:

GDP: $175000
Population: 4000
GDP Per Capita: $43.75
GDP Per Capita: 43 Dollars and 75 Cents

But that is still not what i am "supposed to do". Everything i try to keep gdpPerCapitaCents set as an integer will not work for me. I promise i am not trying to be a pain here and i appreciate all of the replies. Been working on this tiny code for... 5 hours now, awesome!

Right, so, this then right???

int gdpPerCapitaCents = (gdpPerCapita - gdpPerCapitaDollars) * 100;


That is saying (43.75 - 43) x 100.

I get what you are saying, and i know spoon feeding is frowned upon here. But i am seriously not picking up on how to take my INTEGER gdpPerCapitaCents variable, and do these things so that at the END of the statement it equals 43, only because of casting, not because of the math behind it.

Bump, can anyone show where i am being stupid? Just don't say everywhere

Taken from your post. Just added casting and another set of parentheses.
int gdpPerCapitaCents = (int)((gdpPerCapita - gdpPerCapitaDollars) * 100); // 75

Remember it does the math in the parenthesis and then finally casts as an int. If you don't have the parentheses it will output 0. Casting is a right to left associativity.

YOU ARE AMAZING thank you so much! I tried variations of that for hours upon hours. You don't even understand. The one thing i never did try was putting the * 100 into parenthesis. Jeez, unfortunately the answer really was in this thread the whole time and i was too dumb to be able to make sense of it. Seriously thank you again, you just relieved my massive headache.

I tried that (kind of). Where i got confused is for this (int)((gdpPerCapita - gdpPerCapitaDollars) * 100); i totallyspaced on the whole order of operation thing. The whole math expression inside of one set of parenthesis, with the minus part of it in separate parenthesis, with the whole expression casted into an integer type at the beginning, but outside of the math part. Believe me, this whole situation was nothing more than UBER confusion, not laziness. I was messing with that one line of code for so "farging" long last night and into today. And i really thought i was trying what you guys were suggesting.