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/Overflow and Truncation in Floating Point Types
Overflow and Truncation in Floating Point Types
This lesson explains how overflow and truncation affects floating point types.
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Overflow is not ignored #
Despite being able to take very large values, floating point types are prone to overflow as well. Nevertheless, floating point types are safer than integer types in this regard because overflow is not ignored. The values that overflow on the positive side become .infinity, and the values that overflow on the negative side ...