# Why don't integer division errors occur in floating point division?

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**Created:** [August 31, 2018, 3:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-dont-integer-division-errors-occur-in-floating-point-division/14345 "2018-08-31T03:12:02Z")\
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> [@hjohnston7](#):
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> Why don’t these same errors get thrown when I do floating point division with the ‘/’ operator?

This was also discussed recently in another thread: [Division by zero runs without warning -\> complicates finding bugs - #2 by stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/division-by-zero-runs-without-warning-complicates-finding-bugs/113441/2)

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