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[–] larvyde 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

int coerces to double automatically, without explicit casting

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The CPU has to do real work to convert between float and int types. Returning an int type would just be giving the CPU extra work to do for no reason

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm learning so much from this thread and I don't even use Java