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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI C Standard: Float/Double Handling
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Date: Sun, 11-Nov-84 15:22:42 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 11 15:22:42 1984
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> 	It seems to be a poor idea to make all float constants
> double, because a single constant in an expresion will promote
> all the way through the expression, causing all those unwanted
> conversions.

But the programmer has complete control over this:
	(float)3.14159...
is a float, not a double (under the proposed new rules).