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i am preparing for scjp 1.6 and while trying out some code experiments on primitive typcasting i found some unusual behaviour on floating point numbers.
can anyone help me explain whats happening here..


byte ca = (byte)128; // needs an explicit cast because 128 is 32 bit int.
ca = (byte) ca + 12; //explicit cast because evaluting exp is implicitly converted to 32 bit int.

the above code is understandable.



but in the following code

float m = (float) 23.6; // explicit cast because floating points are 64 bit doubles by default and works fine.

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m = (float) m + 5.7; // error . .. why???


why does this line of code doesnt complile. i have given an explicit cast for converting the evaluated double to float. then too it shows an error.
may i know the reason for this behavoiur.

thanks.
regards.
 
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The code:

Gives a compile error because you're casting m to float. So the statement becomes m (float) + 5.7 (double) = double.

There are two ways to accomplish what you want:

Or

 
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Hi there, even the first example that you gave will give a compile time error, you need to cast it like this...

amu
 
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