# 007. Integer division truncates topic: {ref}`basics` ```{literalinclude} ../../src/int-trunc.f90 :language: fortran :caption: int-trunc.f90 | |

``` ```{code-block} text :caption: Output[^gfortran-version] 5 -1 6 0 0.666666687 0.666666687 8 ``` [^gfortran-version]: Compiled using `GNU Fortran (Ubuntu 11.3.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.3.0` with no flags 2/3 = 0 in Fortran because the quotient of two integers is truncated to an integer. The quotient of an integer and a real is a real. ---

print*,2+3,2-3,2*3,2/3,2/3.0,2.0/3,2**3

gives

5 -1 6 0 0.6666667 0.6666667 8

2/3 = 0 in Fortran because the quotient of two integers is truncated to an integer. The quotient of an integer and a real is a real.
— FortranTip (@fortrantip) December 17, 2021