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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AFAIK most typed languages have this behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] larvyde 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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