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Note that this compliant solution cannot be used when the primitive integers are of type long because Java lacks a primitive floating-point type whose mantissa can represent the full range of a long.
Exceptions
NUM13-EX0: Conversion from integral types to floating-point types without a range check is permitted when suitable numerical analysis demonstrates that the loss of the least significant bits of precision is acceptable.
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