Float Questions

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1) 340282346600000000000000000000000000000.0
2) floats use a variable number of decimal points

Blitz3D prints floats using the 7 most significant digits which refelcts the accuracy of a 32 bit float (you can add 1.0 successfully to 10,000,000.0 but you can not add 1.0 to 100,000,000.0 as it is smaller than 1/2^23 of the number you are adding to).