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iand on May 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: 5 Weeks of Go

I think there are int32 values that can't be represented in a float32, e.g. 16,777,217 (and 9,007,199,254,740,993 for int64/float64)

taliesinb on May 23, 2012 [–]

Correct, but that's not true for many elements of {int8,uint8,int16,uint16,int32,uint32} * {float32,float64}

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