[Haskell-beginners] The numeric type stack

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 00:33, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:

> So, is there a reasonable way to get the value of two Integral types
> divided by each other and rounded? How about one integral type and one
> RealFrac? I know I can get it truncated towards either 0 or negative
> infinity, but that's not what I want here.
>

You have two options:

(1) use fromIntegral to coerce an Integral value to a RealFrac;

(2) use (div) (division on Integrals) instead of (/).

Which to use depends on what you're planning to do with the result.  In
this case, I'd probably use (/) and (fromIntegral).

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