I was just messing around, creating small things with C++, when I tried to do this

unsigned int formula = userVal*3.14/(userVal*666);

I'm guessing you're not allowed to do that? At least not in the way I wanted it to? No matter what number I enter, the result is the same, unless I change one of the other values in the "formula". And if I get rid of the second userVal, and replace it with a regular integer, everything works out fine. So yeah, not allowed (well considering it doesn't error out on compile...), or just not able to actually do it? Is there a way to get around this? I would Google it...but I honesty have no idea what I should search for. Thanks. For some reason I feel this may not be the most correct section for this...but oh well.

The problem with userVal*3.14/(userVal*666), is that it the same as (userVal/userVal)*(3.14/666), which is just 3.14/666. Unless userVal is 0, which means you'll cause a divide-by-zero and get NaN back.

Also 'formula' is only an unsigned int, so the floating point part of that expression will be discarded and you'll just get 0 every time.

Well here's the whole thing (was just messing around with the arithmetic operators),

void main(){	cout << "Enter a number and I'll do a wacky formula to it!\n";	cout << ">";	float userVal;	cin >> userVal;	float formula = userVal*3.14/(userVal*666);	cout << formula;	system("pause");}

I changed both types to float (like above), but yet same problem arises, just this time it's coming out to 0.00471471 instead of 0 (yeah because it's no longer discarding the floating point)

Is this something I should avoid doing?

EDIT: Sorry for not seeing your post, hh10k, but you're right. Just generally bad placement of an operator on my part. Well I did throw something randomly together for it. Thanks for the help anyways.

Yeah, I'm just an idiot :)