doubles and floats

[Mike P]

Why does this cause the error 'cannot implicitly convert type 'double'
to 'float'? Can you not multiply doubles by floats without converting
them all to the same datatype?

fltPCRateStd = fltPCRateStd * 1.175;
Regards,

Mike

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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Mike P <mr*@telcoelectronics.co.uk> wrote:

Why does this cause the error 'cannot implicitly convert type 'double'
to 'float'? Can you not multiply doubles by floats without converting
them all to the same datatype?

fltPCRateStd = fltPCRateStd * 1.175;

1.175 is implicitly a double, and double*float results in a double. If
you do

fltPCRateStd = fltPCRateStd * 1.175f;
or
fltPCRateStd *= 1.175f;

it should be fine.

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[Dennis Myrén]

It requires an implicit conversion because double to float conversion is
potentially unsafe
and might throw an exception.
In your case, you may change
fltPCRateStd = fltPCRateStd * 1.175;
into
fltPCRateStd = fltPCRateStd * 1.175F;
to explicitly specify that the number 1.175 is of single precision.
Floating point numbers defaults to be double precisioned.

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"Mike P" <mr*@telcoelectronics.co.uk> wrote in message
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Why does this cause the error 'cannot implicitly convert type 'double'
to 'float'? Can you not multiply doubles by floats without converting
them all to the same datatype?

fltPCRateStd = fltPCRateStd * 1.175;
Regards,

Mike

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[Shiva]

The expression on the right-hand side generates a value of type double. This
cannot be assigned to a float without casting. So,

Option1: cast the whole expr to float: (float)(fltPCRateStd * 1.175)
Option2: Suffix 'f' for the literal value so that the expr results in a
float type value which can be assigned to a float type var: fltPCRateStd *
1.175f

HTH

"Mike P" <mr*@telcoelectronics.co.uk> wrote in message
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Why does this cause the error 'cannot implicitly convert type 'double'
to 'float'? Can you not multiply doubles by floats without converting
them all to the same datatype?

fltPCRateStd = fltPCRateStd * 1.175;
Regards,

Mike

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[Dennis Myrén]

Sorry;
"It requires an implicit conversion"
should be
"It requires an explicit conversion"

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"Dennis Myrén" <de****@oslokb.no> wrote in message
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It requires an implicit conversion because double to float conversion is
potentially unsafe
and might throw an exception.
In your case, you may change
fltPCRateStd = fltPCRateStd * 1.175;
into
fltPCRateStd = fltPCRateStd * 1.175F;
to explicitly specify that the number 1.175 is of single precision.
Floating point numbers defaults to be double precisioned.

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Regards,
Dennis JD Myrén
Oslo Kodebureau
"Mike P" <mr*@telcoelectronics.co.uk> wrote in message
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Why does this cause the error 'cannot implicitly convert type 'double'
to 'float'? Can you not multiply doubles by floats without converting
them all to the same datatype?

fltPCRateStd = fltPCRateStd * 1.175;
Regards,

Mike

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[Morten Wennevik]

Hi Mike,

Multiplying a double with a float will upgrade the float to a double and the result will be a double.
When you are trying to store this result in fltPCRateStd you get this error because float cannot contain all data that may be found in a double.

1.175 without any type specifier will automatically be a double. Specify float to fix it.

fltPCRateStd = fltPCRateStd * 1.175f;
fltPCRateStd = (float)(fltPCRateStd * 1.175);
fltPCRateStd *= 1.175f;

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Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]

[Mike P]

Thanks everybody,

I realised pretty soon after I posted that float = float * double is
potentially unsafe. Since I'm using Math.Round (which only accepts
doubles and decimals) on the result of the calculation, I've decided to
convert the floats to doubles, which makes things a lot more
straightforward.
Cheers,

Mike
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