hello! i'm just posting, because i was wondering if anyone else has made some kind of floating point type thing here on pico-8! i just really wanna see if anyone has broken free from pico-8's fixed-point numbers. if you have, or know somebody that has, please let me know!

This is not exactly what you asked for, but I made an object with metamethods that handle fractions of arbitrary size. Internally, the numerator and denominator are stored as string.
Only + - * / and conversion to string with N decimals specified are available.
Comparaisons also require a function call.

Currently not at home, but i ça share the code in a week if you’re interested.
Could you maybe specify more precisely what your need is ?

@RealShadowCaster i was really looking for an implementation of floating-point numbers, which doesnt use fractions, but i really do think its a good idea to internally store it as a table of bits, like {true, true, false, true}... and so on, and only do string-based math when we are converting to and from a string. floating point numbers in base-10 rather than binary is practically just storing the whole number, because you barely get to use the exponent.

still, i would love to see the code for this, just to be curious.