Error in Counter Code

[DragonGhola]

Hi there! I'm a fairly advanced Java user, but figured that this specific question should go here. My issue is that some counter code I'm using to do a 'matching' algorithm is giving me counter numbers which are much higher than the length of the ArrayLists that they are counting. Here is the relevant code:

for(int x = 0; x < db.size(); x++)
            {
                comparisonScore = 0;
                for(int y = 0; y < compareList.size(); y++)
                {
                    if(db.get(x).getAltTypes().contains(compareList.get(y)))
                    {
                        comparisonScore++;
                        if((double)(comparisonScore / (db.get(x).getAltTypes().size())) > maxComparisonScore)
                        {
                            currentMatchLeader = db.get(x).getActualType();
                            maxComparisonScore = (double)(comparisonScore / (double)(db.get(x).getAltTypes().size()));
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

db and compareList are ArrayLists, db.get(x).getAltTypes() returns an ArrayList, and db.get(x).getActualType() returns a String. My issue is that when I run this I get outputs of somewhere in the range of 868 for the maxComparisonScore, and it feels like I shouldn't be getting more than 1.0. Does anyone see the error here? Thanks for any help you can provide :)

[Norm]

I get outputs of somewhere in the range of 868 for the maxComparisonScore

Try debugging your code by Adding some printlns to show the values of the terms used to compute that value.