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minus-squareAcetamide@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·2 years agoAFAIK most typed languages have this behaviour.
minus-squareLmaydevlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoBecause ints are way smaller. Over a certain value it would always fail.
minus-squarelarvyde@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoYea but at those values floating points can’t represent fractions anyway
minus-squareLmaydevlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoExactly. So if cast to int you’d either get an error or 0 for everything above a certain value.
AFAIK most typed languages have this behaviour.
Because ints are way smaller. Over a certain value it would always fail.
Yea but at those values floating points can’t represent fractions anyway
Exactly. So if cast to int you’d either get an error or 0 for everything above a certain value.