[swift-users] Different behaviour when casting Float and Double to NSNumber

[Lars-Jørgen Kristiansen]

I'm working with a third party API for some external hardware. One of the functions takes a NSNumber, and it fails to interact correctly with the hardware if I cast a Float too NSNumber, but works as expected if I use Double..

I dont know if it is related to NSNumber.stringValue since I dont know what the third part lib does with the NSNumber, but I noticed this:

let float = 100_000_00 as Float
let floatNumber = float as NSNumber

let double = 100_000_00 as Double
let doubleNumer = double as NSNumber

hardware.doThing(number: floatNumber as NSNumber) // Hardware does not work
hardware.doThing(number: doubleNumer as NSNumber) // Hardware works

// Also noticed this:
"\(floatNumber)" // "1e+07"
"\(doubleNumer)" // "10000000"

Is this expected behaviour?
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