[gameprogrammer] Re: floating-point-numbers

From: Matthew Weigel <unique@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:03:26 -0600

Christoph Harder wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> can anybody tell me why many OpenGL programmer user "1.0f" instead of
> just "1"?

The default way an integer like 1 is converted to an imprecise type is that it
is converted to a double, not a float.  To avoid implicit conversions to/from
double, they specify it at the outset as a float.
-- 
 Matthew Weigel
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- [gameprogrammer] floating-point-numbers
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