Why does MathRand keep rounding?

[Robert Dufton]

I have a variable...

Double randomnumber1 = MathRand()/32600;

But randomnumber1 keeps coming back as 0.0 even though MathRand is choosing random numbers between 0 and 32600!! I just want a decimal number between 0 and 1. JEEEEESUS.

I've spent so long on trying to get this one line to work. How is it done?

[Alain Verleyen]

double randomnumber1 = MathRand()/32600.;

[Robert Dufton]

Alain Verleyen:

OMG it works. Why is that little dot not in the literature?

I just managed to get it to work myself by doing:

Double randomnumber1 = (MathRand()+0.000000000)/32600;

Cheers

[honest_knave]

Robert Dufton:

OMG it works. Why is that little dot not in the literature?

I just managed to get it to work myself by doing:

Double randomnumber1 = (MathRand()+0.000000000)/32600;

Cheers

It is in the literature, just a little hidden away: https://docs.mql4.com/basis/types/casting

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Before operations (except for the assignment ones) are performed, the data are converted into the maximum priority type. Before assignment operations are performed, the data are cast into the target type.

Examples:

int    i=1/2;        // no types casting, the result is 0    Print("i = 1/2  ",i);      int k=1/2.0;         // the expression is cast to the double type,    Print("k = 1/2  ",k);  // then is to the target type of int, the result is 0      double d=1.0/2.0;    // no types casting, the result is 0.5    Print("d = 1/2.0; ",d);      double e=1/2.0;      // the expression is cast to the double type,    Print("e = 1/2.0; ",e);// that is the same as the target type, the result is 0.5      double x=1/2;        // the expression of the int type is cast to the double target typr,    Print("x = 1/2; ",x);  // the result is 0.0

Your code was like the example highlighted in yellow.

Alain's was like the example highlighted in green.