循环Java中我一直错过的简单数学/计算错误？

Question

所以我花了三个小时来解决下面的问题。我的逻辑似乎正确，语法似乎正确，但出于某种原因，代码根本不听我的。多典型啊

        float counter = 0;
        float pColor = counter / ((float)Math.abs((x_end - x_start)));

        System.out.println("FIRST EVER PCOUNTER:" + pColor);
        System.out.println("FIRST EVER X START IS: " + x_start);
        System.out.println("FIRST EVER X END IS: " + x_end);
        System.out.println(x_end + "  " + x_start);

        // part of another program
        while(x != x_end){

            x+= step_x;
            counter++;                  
            System.out.println("Count is:" + counter);

            if(p<0){
                p+= twoDy;
            }
            else{
                y += step_y;
                p += twoDyMinusDx;
            }

            System.out.println("pColor is: "+pColor);
            System.out.println("p1.c.r: "+ p1.c.r);
            System.out.println("x_end is: " + x_end);
            System.out.println("x_start is:" + x_start);
            System.out.println("");

因此，上面所有的打印语句都是为了检查pColor是否正在更改。出于某种原因，所有打印语句都表示pColor为0.0

FIRST EVER PCOUNTER:0.0
FIRST EVER X START IS: 341
FIRST EVER X END IS: 350
350  341
Count is:1.0
pColor is: 0.0
p1.c.r: 1.0
x_end is: 350
x_start is:341

Count is:2.0
pColor is: 0.0
p1.c.r: 1.0
x_end is: 350
x_start is:341

Count is:3.0
pColor is: 0.0
p1.c.r: 1.0
x_end is: 350
x_start is:341

Count is:4.0
pColor is: 0.0
p1.c.r: 1.0
x_end is: 350
x_start is:341

Count is:5.0
pColor is: 0.0
p1.c.r: 1.0
x_end is: 350
x_start is:341

Count is:6.0
pColor is: 0.0
p1.c.r: 1.0
x_end is: 350
x_start is:341

Count is:7.0
pColor is: 0.0
p1.c.r: 1.0
x_end is: 350
x_start is:341

Count is:8.0
pColor is: 0.0
p1.c.r: 1.0
x_end is: 350
x_start is:341

Count is:9.0
pColor is: 0.0
p1.c.r: 1.0
x_end is: 350
x_start is:341

正如你们所见，计数器在不断增加，但每一个pColor都保持在0.0。怎么了