Float in Verse

Verse uses float as the type for storing and handling floating point numbers, such as 1.0, -50.5, and 3.14159.

A float in Verse is an IEEE 64-bit float, which means it can contain a positive or negative number that has a decimal point in the range [-2^1024 + 1, … , 0, … , 2^1024 - 1], or has the value NaN (Not a Number).

The implementation for float differs from the IEEE standard in the following ways:

• There is only one NaN value.
• NaN is equal to itself.
• Every number is equal to itself. If two numbers are equal, then no pure Verse code can observe the difference between them.
• 0 cannot be negative.

You can include predefined float values within your code as float literals. A float literal is a floating point number in your code.

The following is an example of how to create a float variable named MaxHealth, initialized with the float literal 100.0: