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.).
Castrated roosters are called capons (surgical and chemical castration are now illegal in some parts of the world). Females over a year old are known as hens and younger females as pullets although in the egg-laying industry, a pullet becomes a hen when she begins to lay eggs at 16 to 20 weeks of age. In Australia and New Zealand (also sometimes in Britain), there is a generic term chook /ËtÊÊk/ to describe all ages and both sexes.