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[-] larvyde@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

int coerces to double automatically, without explicit casting

[-] snake_baitman@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 year ago

The CPU has to do real work to convert between float and int types. Returning an int type would just be giving the CPU extra work to do for no reason

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I'm learning so much from this thread and I don't even use Java

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