On 22-Feb-02 Rich Mcelroy wrote:
> Multiplying A by 100 first would work if it wasn't already a large number.
> I have declared it as an unsigned long and it is usually around 4500-6000,
> if I multiply by 100 I overflow it.

Hmmmm I guess the long must only be 16 bits ?   Not quite what K&R intended.

Ok, so multiply by 1.0 as that is a float and will cause the result to be a
float.

((1.0 * A) / B) * 100.0

That should do the trick I think.

Peter

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