In following expression:
if (ticket_price > 7.50)What’s the type of the literal 7.50? One might think that it’s float. However, the actual type is double. To force the compiler to store a floating point literal as a float rather than double, you have to append the affix ‘f’ to it:
if (ticket_price > 7.50f)
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