What is the difference between Float and float in java?

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Can someone explain to me the difference between Float and float in java? Manythanks.

See the java wrapper classes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_wrapper_class — Ashok kumar, Sep 30 '13 at 12:37
It's like the difference between `int` and `Integer`, but this is less duplicated :) — Maroun, Sep 30 '13 at 12:37
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/data/autoboxing.html — tkroman, Sep 30 '13 at 12:37
possible duplicate of [What is the difference between an int and an Integer in Java and C#?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/564/what-is-the-difference-between-an-int-and-an-integer-in-java-and-c) — zch, Sep 30 '13 at 12:38

score 11 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 30 '13 at 12:40

Float is an object; float is a primitive. Same relationship as Integer and int, Double and double, Long and long.

float can be converted to Float by autoboxing, e.g.

float f=1.0f;
Float floatObject = f;

or explicitly

Float floatObject = new Float(f);

Initially primitives were retained alongside the object versions for speed. Autoboxing/unboxing was added with java 5 to facilitate conversion.

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 30 '13 at 12:39

Float is a class which wraps the primitive float. In newer versions of Java, a feature called autoboxing makes it hard to tell that they are different but generally speaking, use float when you using the number to do calculations and Float when you need to store it in Object collections.

What is the difference between Float and float in java?

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