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Subject: Re: .5 against 0.5f
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Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

> Note: my argumentation is based on questioning the existence of 'F'.
> So I'd appreciate to hear of any enlightening application cases, ones
> that would be impossible when 'F' in literals wouldn't be present.

In C the word is constants, not literals.