Floating point literal, floating literal, double Literal

Question

Is the \'floating point literal\' and the \'floating literal\' the same thing in Java?

Also, is there anything called \'double literal\' in Java?

Answer 1

Java has both float literals marked with a f suffix (for example, 2.5f) and double literals, which don't require a suffix (for example 2.5).

The difference between the two can be demonstrated when you attempt to assign such literals to variables :

double dl = 2.5; // passes compilation
float fl1 = 2.5; // error - "Type mismatch: cannot convert from double to float"
float fl2 = 2.5f; // passes compilation

Both can be considered as floating point literals, since both double and float are floating point types.