Rust ink. Division wont return a number with float point

Question

I'm trying to calculate a value of token by using division operator, it will return a number higher then 1, but never returns here is the code of the price calculation:

        #[ink(message)]
        pub fn get_price_for_token_a_as_input(&self) -> Balance {

            let pool_b_amount: Balance = self.token_b.balance_of(self.get_account_id());
           

            let opr:Balance = 10;
            let one = 1*opr.pow(12);


            let price_from_one_token_a_to_b = one (1) / pool_b_amount (200);
            
            

            price_from_one_token_a_to_b
        }

The Value of price_from_one_token_a_to_b is always 0.

the values are already 10^12.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You cannot use floating point maths in ink!. If you do something like 10/7 then you will get 1 as a result (rounded from 1.42857142857).

It looks like you're calculating 1e12/200e12 which is 0.005 and therefore rounded to 0. 1e12/200 is 5e9 and is perhaps what you expected based on your code comments.

Check out this answer for a more complete explanation of why floating point maths is excluded.