diff --git a/CPPFImdlp.cpp b/CPPFImdlp.cpp
index b09af46..c7b4a08 100644
--- a/CPPFImdlp.cpp
+++ b/CPPFImdlp.cpp
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ namespace mdlp {
             throw invalid_argument("wrong proposed num_cuts value");
         }
         if (proposed_cuts < 1)
-            return static_cast<size_t>(round(X.size() * proposed_cuts));
+            return static_cast<size_t>(round(static_cast<float>(X.size()) * proposed_cuts));
         return static_cast<size_t>(proposed_cuts);
     }
 
diff --git a/tests/FImdlp_unittest.cpp b/tests/FImdlp_unittest.cpp
index 059c592..2d40e3e 100644
--- a/tests/FImdlp_unittest.cpp
+++ b/tests/FImdlp_unittest.cpp
@@ -263,4 +263,15 @@ namespace mdlp {
         int depths[] = { 2, 2, 2, 2 };
         test_dataset(test, "iris", expected, depths);
     }
+    TEST_F(TestFImdlp, ProposedCuts)
+    {
+        vector<pair<float, size_t>> proposed_list = { { 0.1, 2}, { 0.5,  10}, {0.07, 1}, {1, 1}, {2, 2} };
+        size_t expected, computed;
+        for (auto proposed_item : proposed_list) {
+            tie(proposed_cuts, expected) = proposed_item;
+            computed = compute_max_num_cut_points();
+            ASSERT_EQ(expected, computed);
+        }
+
+    }
 }