Counter shows gibberish when it should show number "0"

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@Mark_c

Ok, but then, why does this only seem to happen at zero?

Near zero, a floating point number starts to expose incremental losses of accuracy.

There's also the salami effect, which banking software guards against.

(Not to encourage a life in cyber-crime)

I hope you got to read the comprehensive post by ewpatton at

Strings, numbers, what size can they have?

I’ll address the question in three parts as the actual answer is somewhat complicated. In particular, it’s important to know that at the core of App Inventor is an implementation of the Scheme language called Kawa. Theoretical String Length There are two different internal string types in App Inventor. Kawa provides a mutable string type called FString and then there’s Java’s standard String type. Conversions are done from FString to String on an as needed basis to interact with the parts of th…

You may need to study up on floating point formats first.