Number

A numeric data type. It may be negative or positive and either a whole number or a real number.

Negative numbers are preceded by a hyphen ('-'). Real (floating-point) numbers are denoted by the inclusion of a period ('.').

For operations that may be performed on a number within a Alchemy script see Alchemy Operators.

• float.parse - convert a given expression to a floating-point value

• int - convert a real number to a whole number

• int.parse - convert a given expression to an integer value

• int32 - convert a number to a 32-bit integer

• math.round - round a real number to the nearest whole number