Code reviewMediumcr-g467

Subject RoundingLevel Mid–Senior~14 minCommon in Code quality & review interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Review this C++ helper that converts a price delta in cents to whole dollars, rounding toward negative infinity (floor) for accounting.

It must floor, so -150 cents should yield -2 dollars.

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Code to reviewcpp

1int floorDollars(int cents) {2    return cents / 100;3}

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