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		MisterTea on April 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Memories – 256 bytes demo winner of Revision 2020 I'm sure the author is keeping the language simple and approachable while conveying the idea of "decimal number".

Firadeoclus on April 28, 2020 [–]

Trying and not succeeding to keep the language simple. As evidenced by the sibling comment by pjc50. Fixed point numbers are at least as approachable as floating point numbers in my opinion.

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