Float can contain up to seven digits in total, not just following the decimal point â so, for example, 321.1234567 cannot be stored in float because it has 10 digits. If greater precisionâmore digitsâis necessary, the double type is used.
This animal may have sharp spines, but it isn't a porcupine! It's one of two types of primitive egg-laying mammals, or monotremes. (The other is the duck-billed platypus.).
monÂ·oÂ·treme. The most primitive type of living mammal. Monotremes lay eggs, and the females have no teats but provide milk directly through the skin to their young. Monotremes include only the duck-billed platypus, found in Australia and New Guinea, and the echidnas, found only in New Guinea. Thesaurus AntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: