CODEWITHSUNDEEP
c#
MRC
MRC

Reputation: 553

Percentage is either 0 or 100

I'm failing to understand why this will only return 0 or 100. 

decimal TotalUptimePercent;
TotalUptimePercent = (uptime / (uptime + downtime)) * 100;
MessageBox.Show("Uptime: " + TotalUptimePercent.ToString());

I've tried using double instead of decimal but that didn't work either.

I did look over the site and found some other posts about percentages which recommended using decimal, but isn't working for me.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 115

Answers (1)

AlexD
AlexD

Reputation: 32576

If uptime and downtime are int or alike, try

double TotalUptimePercent = (uptime / (uptime + (double)downtime)) * 100;

See / Operator:

When you divide two integers, the result is always an integer. For example, the result of 7 / 3 is 2.

Upvotes: 7

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