WTF: 4 divided by 7 = 0, huh?!?

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pappavis

I have encountered something very weird. Blitzmax cant do floating point maths?!?

Blitz reports that (4/7) = 0.0000. WTF?!?!

My verison of Blitz is 1.22.

this is the code that generates the above output.

Strict

Local objApp:clsMain = New clsMain;
objApp.main();

Type clsMain
 Method main()
	Print "START"
	Print Double(4/7) '// windows calculator reports 4/7=0,57142857142857142857142857142857
 End Method
End Type

Then building the code.

Building afronding toets wat werk nie
Compiling:afronding toets wat werk nie.bmx
flat assembler version 1.66
3 passes, 3952 bytes.
Linking:afronding toets wat werk nie.debug.exe
Executing:afronding toets wat werk nie.debug.exe

Process complete

running the code produces this output

Building afronding toets wat werk nie
Executing:afronding toets wat werk nie.debug.exe
START
0.00000000000000000

Process complete

Where is my trouble? Why dod i get such a ridcilous error?