Algodoo

Here's a technical explanation for what is happening here and why.


Computers store decimal values in "floating point numbers".
As a floating point number gets larger, it becomes less precise.

One way to think of a float is like this.

Let's say A is a really low precision float with just 3 decimal values.

Storing 1 in A would be as simple as 001.

Storing 1.1 would be done as 01.1.


This works fine for any number up to 99 with up to 1 decimal point, but you can't put a decimal point on 100.

100.?

There's no room to put a decimal place after 100!

This is an oversimplification of course - floats are not in Base 10 and Algodoo doesn't use floats with only 3 digits. But, I'm hoping this is still a good explanation.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong by the way!