C#•2y ago

The call is ambiguous between the following methods or properties

Hey, i'm very new to C# and im getting this error "The call is ambiguous between the following methods or properties"

5 Replies

this is the code

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;

public class Test
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        int[] input = {16,1,2,0,4,2,7,1,2,14};
        
        int avg = (int)Math.Ceiling(input.Sum() / input.Length);
        int min_pos = 2147483647;
        
        for (int i = input.Min(); i <= avg; i++)
        {
            int pos = 0;
            
            foreach (int num in input)
            {
                pos += Math.Abs(num - i);
            }
            
            min_pos = Math.Min(min_pos, pos);
        }
        
        int result = min_pos;
        Console.WriteLine(result);
    }
}

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;

public class Test
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        int[] input = {16,1,2,0,4,2,7,1,2,14};
        
        int avg = (int)Math.Ceiling(input.Sum() / input.Length);
        int min_pos = 2147483647;
        
        for (int i = input.Min(); i <= avg; i++)
        {
            int pos = 0;
            
            foreach (int num in input)
            {
                pos += Math.Abs(num - i);
            }
            
            min_pos = Math.Min(min_pos, pos);
        }
        
        int result = min_pos;
        Console.WriteLine(result);
    }
}

canton7•2y ago

What's the full error message? You've just shown the first bit.

ｊｏｓｈｕａ•2y ago

/tmp/PKtP038Ijk.cs(11,23): error CS0121: The call is ambiguous between the following methods or properties: 'Math.Ceiling(decimal)' and 'Math.Ceiling(double)'

/tmp/PKtP038Ijk.cs(11,23): error CS0121: The call is ambiguous between the following methods or properties: 'Math.Ceiling(decimal)' and 'Math.Ceiling(double)'

canton7•2y ago

I'm guessing you probably wanted to do a floating-point division there? You're currently dividing an int by an int, which gives you an int. Calling Ceiling on an int doesn't make any sense (int)Math.Ceiling((double)input.Sum() / input.Length)

ｊｏｓｈｕａ•2y ago

oh yeah that was it! thanks a lot

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The call is ambiguous between the following methods or properties