Why do binary arithmetic operations sometimes result in different outputs?

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Hello everyone !
I got a problem, I can't figure out why when I compute [itex]A+B[/itex] and [itex]2\times (\frac{A}{2}+\frac{B}{2})[/itex] the result is sometimes different.
Can anyone explain why the results of the two operations are different ?

Edit : A and B are coded in binary of course and we compute a binary addition.
 
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Integers I forgot to mention sorry.
 
jim hardy said:
Well there you go.

Got Basic?

FOR I = 1 , 10 , 1
PRINT I, INT( I/2)
NEXT I
END

I see thank you :) .
 
megaflop said:
Integers I forgot to mention sorry.
Does only "misbehave" if you're using one or more odd integers? :rolleyes: