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Aaron Zheng
1,517 PointsWhat is a float?
class Temperature { var celsius: Float = 0.0 }
1 Answer
Jake Adams
1,608 PointsThere are 2 types of floating points in Swift: Float and Double (both are numbers with decimals)
- Float is a 32-bit representation of a number
- Double is a 64-bit representation
It's important to note that floating points are simply approximations of real numbers. The benefit to floating points is they can represent much larger numbers that an Integer, but they are not without their pitfalls.
For instance, the constant declared below has a value of 1, even though we know it should be more.
let iOnlyEqualOneWTH = Float(1) + Float(0.000000000000001)
As a side note, it's always best to represent currency values using Double as that gives us twice the precision and a much smaller chance of a floating point math error.
Floating point: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/F/floating_point_number.html