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mantone YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 4	What does this stand for? Nov 27th, 2008, 9:06am   sometimes i see some numbers, that is followed by 'f' Here is an example from Daniel Shifmans site I've seen it else where as well,in other code examples, what does it mean? http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/nature/forces/ void update() {  vel.add(acc);  loc.add(vel);  acc.setXY(0.0f,0.0f); // new! }

Ilu YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 24	Re: What does this stand for? Reply #1 - Nov 27th, 2008, 9:36am   these are floats. if you write 1.0 it's a double number, if you put a 'f' behind a number it's a float (e.g. 1f or 1.0f).

JohnG Ex Member

Re: What does this stand for? Reply #2 - Nov 27th, 2008, 11:11am   Ilu wrote on Nov 27th, 2008, 9:36am: these are floats. if you write 1.0 it's a double number, if you put a 'f' behind a number it's a float (e.g. 1f or 1.0f). Actually that's only true in Java, in Processing 1.0 is taken to be a float not a double, since Processing defaults to floats for everything. To make a number a double you'd have to suffix it 'd' I think