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floating point type
subject			fact

floating point type	has a sign indicating positive or negative
	is a subtopic of Variables and Data Types
	is a kind of primitive type
primitive type	evaluates to the value stored in the variable
	has part primitive type name
	is not an object
	is normally used instead of wrapper class instances for arithmetic
type	limits the possible values that a variable can hold or that an expression can produce at run time
	specifies a set of value

Kinds of floating point type :

• double^2 (5 facts)
• float^2 (10 facts)