Storing very small numbers

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#1

I have currently got a NumberValue that I set to something that is lower than 0.00001. Unfortunately the value automatically changes to 0. Can you help me in storing value smaller than that?

#2

The property widget, for whatever reason, doesn’t allow precision over 3 decimal places. For your use case, I recommend a StringValue which can store thousands of characters (not that you need that much precision). You’ll just need to typecast between number and string and vise versa.

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#3

Does not really work as intended. Can you provide any examples?

Here’s my script:

local num = 0.00001
script:WaitForChild("Value").Value = tostring(num)
num = tonumber(script:WaitForChild("Value").Value)
print(num)

It prints out 1e-05.

#5

1e-05 is 1 raised to the power of -5 which is indeed 0.00001.

#6

I know however how can I use it in a script?

Edit: seems that it can be used normally:

local num = 0.00001
script:WaitForChild("Value").Value = tostring(num)
num = tonumber(script:WaitForChild("Value").Value)
wait(num)
print("test")

The script prints “test”.