float (floating point number)

Floating point number (primitive)

Description

Any number. To be precise, a full set of all IEEE-754 64-bit floating-point numbers.

This data-type is going to be deprecated in favour of num (since it is literally the same underlying data-type anyway). Please do not use float

Supported Hooks

• Marshal() Supported
• Unmarshal() Supported

See Also

• int: Whole number (primitive)
• num (number): Floating point number (primitive)

Read more about type hooks

• ReadIndex() (type): Data type handler for the index, [, builtin
• ReadNotIndex() (type): Data type handler for the bang-prefixed index, ![, builtin
• ReadArray() (type): Read from a data type one array element at a time
• WriteArray() (type): Write a data type, one array element at a time
• ReadMap() (type): Treat data type as a key/value structure and read its contents
• Marshal() (type): Converts structured memory into a structured file format (eg for stdio)
• Unmarshal() (type): Converts a structured file format into structured memory

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