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freakTheMighty YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 24	.5f what is the f? Jul 16th, 2008, 8:53pm   What is the purpose of the f?

JohnG Ex Member	Re: .5f what is the f? Reply #1 - Jul 16th, 2008, 9:00pm   The f just says "this value is a float".. by default Java interprets 0.3 as a double but saying 0.3f makes it a float. Processing however interprets 0.3 as a float, so the f is not necessary.

glenn Junior Member Offline Posts: 86	Re: .5f what is the f? Reply #2 - Jul 16th, 2008, 9:14pm   lol, i spent about 2 hours on the net one time searching for the same thing..
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iasonf YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 9	Re: .5f what is the f? Reply #3 - Jun 9th, 2009, 12:20pm   thanks, ive been more lucky and found this thread after 10mins. just searched for f

Cedric YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1838	Re: .5f what is the f? Reply #4 - Jun 9th, 2009, 6:03pm
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Vanilla Chen YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 9	Re: .5f what is the f? Reply #5 - Jun 11th, 2009, 7:30pm