clojure.core/float?

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Type: function Added: Clojure 1.0 Examples: 3 Runnable: 2

([n])

Returns true if n is a floating point number

Examples

by dpritchett on 2010-07-14 ▶

(float? 0) false (float? 0.0) true

by guruma on 2016-02-07 . May have evaluation errors. ▶

;; float? returns true for both float and double. (map (juxt type float?) [(float 1) (double 1)]) ([java.lang.Float true] [java.lang.Double true]) ;; Call instance? to check if the value is specifically float or double. (map (juxt type #(instance? Float %)) [(float 1) (double 1)]) ([java.lang.Float true] [java.lang.Double false])

by zoren on 2020-06-22 ▶

;; BigDecimal is not float (float? 0.0M) false

See also

• clojure.core/double?
• clojure.core/bigdec?
• clojure.core/decimal?

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