Float Primitive

[Kanchan K Bulbule]

When we assign float f=5.00 We get a compiler error as default type of floating point number is double and cast is neccessary .

Y a cast is not needed when we say float f = 35/6 ;

Some help needed on this..


Thanks in advance.


Kanchan

[Priya Jothi]

Hi Kanchan,

In the above stmt only integer division will be carried out not float division.bcoz both 35 & 6 will be taken as integers & result will be
35 /6 = 5(digits after decimal point will be truncated).so no cast is needed here.

Regards,
Priya.

[Nilesh Raje]

Hello Kanchan,

I hope that answer by priya helps you..! To add more..!

The resultant of the division is integer that is 5 which can be assigned to float.
If the question was like 35.0/6.0 then u needed a explicit cast as the the default type of answer is 5.0 double in this case.

Cheers..!

[Karthik Hariharan]

floats, if not explicityly casted, need to be declared with the keyword 'f', correct?

float num = 5.0f (this is legal)

Are floats used very often? I can see from a memory conservation point of view why they would be used, but I don't see them too often in practice.