The P
(or p
) indicates a hexadecimal floating-point literal, where the significand is specified in hex.
The p
is used instead of the e
. The d
and f
suffixes that you've seen are orthogonal to this: both 0x1.0p+2f
and 0x1.0p+2d
are valid literals (one is of type float
and the other is of type double
).
At first glance it might seem that the 0x
prefix is sufficient to identify a hex floating-point literal, so why have the Java designers chosen to change the letter from e
to p
? This has to do with e
being a valid hex digit, so keeping it would give rise to parsing ambiguity. Consider:
0x1e+2
Is that a hex double
or the sum of two integers, 0x1e
and 2
? When we change e
to p
, the ambiguity is resolved:
0x1p+2
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