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[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because ints are way smaller. Over a certain value it would always fail.

[–] larvyde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea but at those values floating points can't represent fractions anyway

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly. So if cast to int you'd either get an error or 0 for everything above a certain value.