Dear Support,

Sorry for this basic question, but I just can not understand why the following lines of code returns the result "k=0.0"

double k;
k=2/(6+1);
print("k="+k);

I would expect k=0.28571428571428571428571428571429 (I use this for the calculation of a 6 period exponential moving average) but instead it returns 0.


Thank you very much in advance!

Because java performs integer division with integers, you either need to operate with double values or make explicit cast, thus either k=2d/(6d+1d); or k=2.0/(6.0+1.0);