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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink14•1 year agoAFAIK most typed languages have this behaviour.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•1 year agoBecause ints are way smaller. Over a certain value it would always fail.
minus-squarelarvydelinkfedilink1•1 year agoYea but at those values floating points can’t represent fractions anyway
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 year 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.