Function always returns 0

I have an issue with a program I am writing for an assignment, I have been trying to resolve it for the past 2 days. My function keeps returning 0 and I dont know why.

This is my function prototype

Code:

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float farToCel ( int ); //Farhenheit to Celcius function prototype using pass by value

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This code is from main where I call the function

Code:

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case 2:
        cout << "Enter the value in Farenheit ";
        cin >> value;
        a = farToCel(value);
        cout << value << " Farenheit is equal to " << a << " Celcius\n" << endl;
        break;

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And, here is the function definition

Code:

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float farToCel(int value)
{
        float result;

        result = ((5 / 9) * (value - 32));
        return result;
}

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I have even tried debugging and value is being passed to the function correctly and it still returns a 0 every time. Could someone please let me know what I'm doing wrong here?

5/9 is an integer division. How many 9's in 5, answer 0. 0 * any_num = 0, therefore 0 always gets returned.

try 5.0/9.0

I wanna kick myself right now, I've been struggling with this for two days and all I needed was a .0 at the end.

Thank you very much Russco