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Ganesha Kumar

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Why is the floating point literal such as 3.21 always of the type double by default.

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Java Language Specification.
3.10.2 Floating-Point Literals
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Ganesha Kumar

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The article just describes float and double literals. But it does not say why a literal such as "3.02" is double by default. What is the advantage of having it double.

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more precision.
IEEE floating-point standard.

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