C# Numeric suffixes

In this chapter you will learn:

1. What C# Numeric suffixes
2. Example for C# Numeric suffixes

Description

Numeric suffixes explicitly define the type of a literal.

Suffixes can be either lower or uppercase.

Example

The F and M suffixes should always be applied when specifying float or decimal literals.

Without the F suffix, the following line would not compile, because 4.5 would be inferred to be of type double, which has no implicit conversion to float.

The same principle is true for a decimal literal:

float f = 4.5F; 
decimal d = -1.23M;     // Will not compile without the M suffix. 

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What you will learn in the next chapter:

1. C# float vs double types
2. float point value literal: 3.281f and 5E-02
3. Use Remainder Operator on float point data type
4. floats and arithmetic operators

C# Numeric suffixes