Doubt

[Raj Neets]

Is it legal to assign, a long value to a float variable.Since long 32 bits and float is only 16 bits I thought, its illegal.
Can some one explain to me?

[Peter den Haan]

There is an inevitable loss of precision, but any long number can be approximated by a float number, so the conversion still considered to be a "widening" conversion and done automatically (i.e. without explicit cast).
The Java Language Specification section 5.1.2 specifies exactly how these widening conversions work.
- Peter