UMBC CMSC201, Computer Science I

Floating Point Constants


Examples of floating point constants

   3.14159 

   314.159e-2

These are not good floating point constants

   3,141.59    /* No commas allowed             */

   314159      /* This is an integer constant   */

   -3.14159    /* Really an expression          */ 


Last Modified: Thu Sep 14 13:46:02 EDT 1995

Richard Chang, chang@gl.umbc.edu