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  • jscottm
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    • Feb 2016
    • 1
    #1

    Really big numbers

    I am trying to create a program that calculates the cost of one atom of an element but when I run the code this line...

    Code:
    decCostPerSingle = decSampleCost / decNumPerSample
    gets an error that says "DivideByZeroEx ception was unhandled" I think it may be because my "decNumPerSampl e" is somewhere around .00000000000000 000000000007985 and I think it is rounding down to zero.

    How do I fix this problem.
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    • codegazer
      New Member
      • Oct 2015
      • 27
      #2
      You're very likely to have sussed this out by now, but I think you'll have to settle for Cost per trillion atoms or some other large number.

      Just make sure that you multiply up before you divide thus:
      (1000000000000 * decSampleCost) / decNumPerSample .

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