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Understand numeric to numeric conversions

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Understand numeric to numeric conversions

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- [Instructor] The process of changing a value from one data type to another type is called a conversion. In this video, we'll look at conversion concepts for the VB built-in numeric types. To review, a variable is typed at declaration time. Once the type is set, it cannot be changed, and the variable can only hold a value of its defined type. For this discussion, we'll focus on the simpler numeric types and ignore class inheritance topics. In this example, we have the counter variable. It can only hold integer values. On line 51, assigning a integer literal is acceptable. On line 52, we attempt to assign a double floating point literal. Since the variable cannot contain a double, there must be a conversion to an integer. The red squiggle is there because I've configured Visual Basic to warn me about implicit conversions. Most details about this soon. On line 53, we used the Convert class to explicitly convert from a…

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