From: "Paul Ranson" 

That's a compile time example, the arithmetic got done before any code was
generated, OTOH,

double a, b ;
a = 15 ;
b = 2 ;
cout << a/b << "\n" ;

will print 7.5. Probably also done at compile time in this trivial case.

Paul

"Geo"  wrote in message
news:417a6ed0$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> double a, b;
>
>  a=15/2;
>  b=15.0/2;
>
>  cout << a << " " << b << "\n";
>
> output is 7 7.5
>
> Geo. (seems like a significant difference to me )

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