Floating Point Literal

Floating Point Literal

Floating point literals are floating point values of an unspecified type.

Example 1

1000.0

Example 2

-8476.14159

Example 3

1.414e10

Type Determination

The type of the floating point literal is determined by the context around the literal. If the value is used alongside a value of a known floating point type, then the floating point literal will become that type, otherwise it will collapse to be of type double by default.