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C# C# Basics (Retired) Perfect Doubles

Carlos Mendez
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What if I use a float data type instead of a double one? ?

What's the difference between them?

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Allan Clark
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Allan Clark
Allan Clark
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Float would be fine to use in this situation, you would just be losing a small bit of precision which is not really important for this example. It would restrict how many numbers the user could input after the decimal point but it should never be more than 2 anyway.

http://www.tutorialsteacher.com/csharp/csharp-data-types

http://net-informations.com/q/faq/float.html