Float: a floating point number.

浮点数：一个浮点数。

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Chenayya had learned enough about English numerals to recognize his own ticket number; he squinted for several moments, and then let the ticket float to the ground.

成内亚对于的英文数字的理解水平，足够看懂自己的奖票号码，他眯着眼睛瞄了几下，然后颓然让奖票兀自飘落在地。

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The maximum value of a float is about 3.4*1038, which isn't large enough for some things you might wish to represent, such as the number of electrons in the universe.

float的最大值约为 3.4*1038。 这个值还不足以表示某些东西，比如宇宙中的电子数目。

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float So thus far, when we've defined -- declared an int and a float, 2 and so forth, we just put one value in there, the number 2, the number 3.14, just one single value.

至此，当我们定义--声明一个int，和一个，等等，我们只要在那里放置一个值，数字，数字3，14，只有一个值。

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