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Why doesn’t this code compute the number of hours and seconds?
n := 43210 // time in seconds
fmt.Println(n/60*60, "hours and", n%60*60, "seconds")43200 hours and 600 seconds
Answer
The *, /, and % operators have the same precedence
and are evaluated left to right: n/60*60 is the same as (n/60)*60.
Insert a pair of parantheses to force the correct evaluation order.
fmt.Println(n/(60*60), "hours and", n%(60*60), "seconds")
12 hours and 10 seconds
Or better yet, use a constant.
const SecPerHour = 60 * 60
fmt.Println(n/SecPerHour, "hours and", n%SecPerHour, "seconds")
12 hours and 10 seconds
See Operators: complete list for a full explanation of the evalutation order of operations in Go expressions.
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