title: Why no unsigned floating point types?
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/512022/why-doesnt-c-have-unsigned-floats">Why doesn&#39;t C have unsigned floats?</a>  </p>
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  <p>The question is probably very basic and probably answered many time earlier, but I want to understand why C++ does not have unsigned floating point types, even though floating point literals can be signed or unsigned.</p>
  
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    <p>$3.9.1/8- "There are three floating
    point types: float, double, and long
    double."</p>
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