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.).
Bird's egg dissected to show embryo within. An egg is the organic vessel containing the zygote in which an animal embryo develops until it can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches. An egg results from fertilization of an ovum. Most arthropods, vertebrates, and mollusks lay eggs, although some do not, such as scorpions and most mammals.