Why does integer division in C# return an integer and not a float?

Question

Does anyone know why integer division in C# returns an integer and not a float? What is the idea behind it? (Is it only a legacy of C/C++?)

In C#:

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Answer 1

Its just a basic operation.

Remember when you learned to divide. In the beginning we solved 9/6 = 1 with remainder 3.

9 / 6 == 1  //true
9 % 6 == 3 // true

The /-operator in combination with the %-operator are used to retrieve those values.