I'm at the part where you are learning the different types of variables and constants, and escape sequences, bits and bytes, all that stuff. So far I have got it pretty good, but am becoming confused on floating point types and constants.I know that when you are declaring a constant you can add suffixes to the end of the declaration to change the type. Like this:1.234f // a float constant2.345234E28L // a long double constant And I get that. But some example code in the book shows this:float a = 2.34E+22f;float b = a + 1.0f;I know that that code means it is declaring two variables of the type float. Variable a is 2.34e22 (2.34 X 10^22 in scientific notation). Variable b is variable a + 1. That I understand. What I don't get is why there is an f at the end of each number. I know that with constants that changes the type to float. But the type is already float because of the declaration. The word float in front of the variable name creates a variable of the type float. So why do you need an 'f' at the end. The numbers aren't considered constants.
C++
Topic: Variable
declaring floating-point type variables
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