What does floating point in floating point variable mean?

Answer 1

Firstly "float" is a value type structure. Data types determines what type of data can be put within the declared variable. The float data type has 7 digits of precision.

Answer 2

It means that the variable contains a decimal point (it is not an integer). A disadvantage of this is that you cannot use increment-by-one operators like "++" and "--" on floating point variables.