Floating point numbers

Numbers with certain places after the decimal point are referred to as floating point numbers in the programming language:

• The floating point number type ranges approximately from -10 to 10^{^308} and has 16 digits of precision.
• There are two ways to write a floating point number. It can be written using ordinary decimal notation or scientific notation. Scientific notation is often useful for mentioning very large numbers, as shown in the following screenshot: