# How to calculate with floating values in Hugo?

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**Created:** [August 5, 2015, 4:38pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-calculate-with-floating-values-in-hugo/1524 "2015-08-05T16:38:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-calculate-with-floating-values-in-hugo/1524/4 "2015-08-05T21:57:07Z")

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@jura, in your example, a floating value will be returned if 100 is replaced by 100.0 like

```auto
{{ div (mul $done 100.0) $total }}% done

```

`doArithmetic` internal function converts integer to float if one of arguments includes a float value.

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