float to long typecasting

[Sandeep Kumar.]

Hi

i don't know how java stores floating point numbers in memory.(distribution of absolute and fraction digits)
a long takes 8 byte while a float takes 4 bytes only so why can't we typecast a float to a long implicitly. why widening isn't followed here in this case

and why a long can be type casted to a float implicitly while long takes 4 bytes more than float so there must be a loss of precision in this case; still it is allowed.

[Henry Wong]

Whether casting can be done implicitedly depends on the range -- not on the size in bytes or the precision. And since the range of the float is larger than the range of the long, a long can be casted to a float implicitedly, even though you may lose precision by doing so.

Henry