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Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 1,396 PointsWhat if I use a float data type instead of a double one? ?
What's the difference between them?
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Allan Clark
10,810 PointsFloat would be fine to use in this situation, you would just be losing a small bit of precision which is not really important for this example. It would restrict how many numbers the user could input after the decimal point but it should never be more than 2 anyway.
Carlos Mendez
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 1,396 PointsCarlos Mendez
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 1,396 PointsThank you Allan ??