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Floating-point literal exceeds the available precision

Reports floating-point literals that cannot be represented with the required precision using IEEE 754 Float and Double types.

For example, 1.9999999999999999999 has too many significant digits, so its representation as a Double will be rounded to 2.0. Specifying excess digits may be misleading as it hides the fact that computations use rounded values instead.

The quick-fix replaces the literal with a rounded value that matches the actual representation of the constant.

Example:

val x: Float = 3.14159265359f

After the quick-fix is applied:

val x: Float = 3.1415927f

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

FloatingPointLiteralPrecision
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Kotlin | Other problems

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection FloatingPointLiteralPrecision

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025