Odd behavior with NSUInteger - can't convert to float properly - objective-c

Question

Here is my situation. Its driving me nuts:
I have an NSMutableArray with a count value of 517. I have a double value that is my multiplier.
double multiplier = 0.1223;
double result = [myArray count] * multiplier; // 63 even (wrong!)
In fact it should be 63.2291. If I go:
double result = [myArray count] * 0.1223; // 63.2291 (right!)
or..
double result = 517 * multiplier; // 63.2291 (right!)
Does this make any sense to anyone?
Addendum:
here is my actual function:
- (double) getValueForPercentage:(double)percVal
{
int adjustedCount = [originalData count] - 1;
double final = percVal * (double)adjustedCount;
return final;
}
I never get any digits beyond the decimal point when I do this. It does however work if I get rid of the "-1", a-la:
- (double) getValueForPercentage:(double)percVal
{
int adjustedCount = [originalData count];
double final = percVal * (double)adjustedCount;
return final;
}
Of course, I need to have the -1.
Second addendum:
Another interesting thing I noted was, if I pass a hard-coded number to this function it works fine, but if I pass the double value that I need to use, it fails:
int pointCount = [srcData getDayCount];
for (int i = 0; i < pointCount; i++) {
double progress = (double)i/(double)(pointCount - 1);
double satv = [srcData getValueForPercentage:progress];
// satv is always a number without any digits beyond the decimal
}

Answer 1

Well, when I started to have these issues i looked around a bit and found no reason or explanation.
What I do now is make everything become an NSNumber and then call doubleValue on it. This should yield the results you're looking for:
NSNumber * pointCount = [NSNumber numberWithUnsignedInt: [srcData getDayCount]];
for (NSInteger i = 0; i < [pointCount intValue]; i++) {
NSNumber * count = [ NSNumber numberWithInt: i ];
double progress = [count doubleValue]/[pointCount doubleValue] - 1.0;
double satv = [srcData getValueForPercentage:progress];
// satv is always a number without any digits beyond the decimal
}
Hope it helps.