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Where exactly were you mixing integers and floats? In my experience it doesn't come up too often, and if it does (e.g. writing area = 2 * pi * r) you'd be better served changing the 2 to 2.0.

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I sometimes want to avoid using floats because of the inaccuracy that sometimes arise with their use. If I recall correctly, in Haskell division requires the numerator and denominator to be of the class fractional. So how I did integer division was something like this

round (fromIntegral x / fromIntegral y)

round is one of several functions that transform numbers to integers.

    Prelude> 5 `div` 2
    2

Haskell's doing the right thing here by having a separate function for integer division. It makes no sense to overload / to mean both regular and integer division.

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