As pointed out by others, floats work differently from ints in programming languages. Division in ints is usually defined such that if x = d * y + m, x / y = d

As pointed out by others, floats work differently from ints in programming languages. Division in ints is usually defined such that if x = d * y + m, x / y = d and x % y = m. You can make this work by choosing the right m for every d, but when y is not 0, there are a few conventions you can choose to pick a sensible d and m. When y = 0, the m = a and d is completely free, so there really isn't a right answer from how division works. Division with floats doesn't usually have a definition like that, so you don't end up in a similar situation. Plus, floating point math can have denominators get really close to 0 and have the result of the division tend toward the infinity value. Ints don't have values close to 0 or an infinity to represent what that division would tend toward.