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The original was posted on /r/programminglanguages by /u/sporeboyofbigness on 2024-08-06 16:39:48+00:00.

What is a good name for a 64-bit float?

Currently my types are:

int / uint

int64 / uint64

float

f64

I guess I could rename f64 to float64?

I dislike “double” because what is it a double of? A single? It does kind of “roll off the tongue” well but it doesn’t really make sense.