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<p>Gleam's <code>Float</code> type represents numbers that are not integers.</p>
<p>
Gleam's numerical operators are not overloaded, so there are dedicated
operators for working with floats.
</p>
<p>
Floats are represented as 64 bit floating point numbers on both the Erlang and
JavaScript runtimes. The floating point behaviour is native to their
respective runtimes, so their exact behaviour will be slightly different
on the two runtimes.
</p>
<p>
Under the JavaScript runtime, exceeding the maximum (or minimum) representable
value for a floating point value will result in <code>Infinity</code> (or
<code>-Infinity</code>). Should you try to divide two infinities you will
get <code>NaN</code> as a result.
</p>
<p>
When running on the BEAM any overflow will raise an error. So there is
no <code>NaN</code> or <code>Infinity</code> float value in the Erlang
runtime.
</p>
<p>
Division by zero will not overflow, but is instead defined to be zero.
</p>
<p>
The
<a href="https://hexdocs.pm/gleam_stdlib/gleam/float.html"
><code>gleam/float</code></a
>
standard library module contains functions for working with floats.
</p>
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