A Single is an intrinsic data type in REALbasic. A Single is a number that can contain a decimal value, i.e., a real number.
It can take on a value between -1.175494 e-38 and 3.402823 e+38. In other languages, REALbasic's Single may be referred to as a single precision real number. If you need more precision, you should use a Double instead. Because Singles are numbers, you can perform mathematical calculations on them. Singles use 4 bytes of memory. Other languages refer to a REALbasic Single as a Float. The default value of a Single is 0.0.
The VarType function returns a value of 5 when passed a Single.
Example
The Single and Double data types allow you to store and manage floating point numbers.
See Also
Boolean, Byte, Color, Double, Int8, Int16, Int32, Int64, String, UInt8, UInt16, UInt32, UInt64, Variant data types; -, +, *, /, <, <=, =, >=, >, <>, \, IsNumeric, Mod, Str, Val, VarType functions; Dim statement.