Error: Kotlin: The floating-point literal does not conform to the expected type Float

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I was making a simple maths calculator in kotlin, an error appeared on my screen when I tried to initialize the value of one of the variables used as 0.00 for float integer.

var x:Float= readLine()!!.toFloat()
var y:Float= readLine()!!.toFloat()
var sum:Float=0.00// the error message is showcased in this line
sum=x+y
println("Addition " + sum)
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This is a key difference between Java and Kotlin. Kotlin does not do numeric type promotion like Java does. The comments to your question are showing you how to deal with this, by either matching up the two types Double and/or Float to begin with, or by explicitly converting one or the other so that the two types match up.

Your problems goes away if you make use of Kotlin's ability to infer variable types by taking the type specifications off of your variable definitions. The fact that Kotlin infers types is one reason it does not promote numeric types. Mixing the two would lead to a lot of confusion.

Here's an example of how to fix and simplify your code's type mismatch issues using type inference:

var x = readLine()!!.toFloat()
var y = readLine()!!.toFloat()
var sum = x + y
println("Addition " + sum)

I understand that this may be just test code that you're using to understand Kotlin better. With that said, I'll point out that this code will crash if your user types in non-numeric input. You could fix this by putting a try/catch around your input lines, and providing an nice error message. You might want to put each input in a loop, continuing to ask for an input until the user does provide a response that is of the expected format.

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