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[-] Acetamide@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

AFAIK most typed languages have this behaviour.

[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

Because ints are way smaller. Over a certain value it would always fail.

[-] larvyde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Yea but at those values floating points can't represent fractions anyway

[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

Exactly. So if cast to int you'd either get an error or 0 for everything above a certain value.

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