can't divide float number - how to?

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kundi

Hello,

I have some issues with dividing float number. For some reason when I send 2 float numbers to divide object to float result I get only an integer. What should I do?

Thanks for help

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MIB

initialize the divide object as floating point by giving it an argument of 1.0 or another float.

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metamax

You can option-click any Max object and it will bring up the help file. I only mention it in case you didn't know that...

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Martin Devek

As MIB suggested, initialize the divide object as floating point by giving it an argument of 1.0 or another float does the trick. But Why? If I divide an integer by another integer, and output the result as a float that should work, shouldn't it?

However, I find MAX not to be intuitive. Many times I want to build up a patch from scratch I end up having one or two minor problems like the one mentioned above and sometimes is difficult to understand why it doesn't work.