Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-27538855-20160420144555/@comment-185.69.104.28-20170530143911

Water Fish 88 wrote: what does that mean? What are "floating point errors"? Floating point errors are basicly this: The game stores an exact length of a number, let's say 5 numbers. This can be 22.345 and that is ok, but when the number gets bigger: 5684.5. You loose precision. As you can see, to first one has 3 decimal places of precision and the second one only one. You can even have numbers padded by zeroes: 12345000. But there are always only 5 digits that are used. (In reality, this is 24 bits = binary digits or about 7.6 digits in decimal)