Declaration of a variable

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I am new in C programming language and I have a question related to a variable:

float a=12.34f;

What does "f" stand for? I tried to see what happens if I remove the letter, but I couldn't find anything. The output is the same.

"*The output is the same.*" but not the compiler output, which warns that a `double` is truncated to `float` (without the `f`). Stop using `float` anyway, it's so 20th century. You wouldn't use `char` for numbers. — Weather Vane, Oct 21 '15 at 18:47

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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So that it will be interpret as float not double by the compiler.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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answered Oct 21 '15 at 18:45

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