Float argument

[Barkat Mardhani]

public class Test {
public static void main (String args []) {
Float f = new Float(4.4e99f); /line 1
Float f1 = new Float("4.4e99f"); /line 2
Float f2 = new Float(4.4e99); /line 3
System.out.println(f);
}
}

Why line 1 gives error (too big of a float) while line 2 and 3 do not....

[Greg Neef]

Float MAX_VALUE = 3.4028235E38 so the number you are entering is considered INFINITY even when it takes in the other two forms. I agree that it seems odd that it will take it as a string but not as a number.

[Thomas Paul]

Don't you think that asking the compiler to convert Strings into floats in order to check to see if it is too big a float might be a little too much to ask?
The last one is not too big because it isn't a float but rather a double. Moving a very large double to a float just turns the float into INFINITY.