Soldato
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So I can be rather dense.
I'm trying to learn what a floating point number is, with regards to C# programming and I cant find an explanation I understand. Can anyone dumb it down for me?
I have googled, And the answers I'm getting are along these lines:-
float : A fractional (floating point) number (eg, 3.25907).
Can be a number between roughly 1.5 x 10^45 to 3.4 10^38, in floating point format.
Okay cool, but why would use use a float?
I get INT, Boolean and Strings. But floats, I'm not getting the reasoning behind them?
Float = 1.5 x 10^45 to 3.4 10^3 just baffles me.
Is it just a number with a decimal point?
I'm trying to learn what a floating point number is, with regards to C# programming and I cant find an explanation I understand. Can anyone dumb it down for me?
I have googled, And the answers I'm getting are along these lines:-
float : A fractional (floating point) number (eg, 3.25907).
Can be a number between roughly 1.5 x 10^45 to 3.4 10^38, in floating point format.
Okay cool, but why would use use a float?
I get INT, Boolean and Strings. But floats, I'm not getting the reasoning behind them?
Float = 1.5 x 10^45 to 3.4 10^3 just baffles me.
Is it just a number with a decimal point?