with floats you don't need that big numbers though since they are much better suited for directly using them as (much more intuitive) meters instead of 32 quants = 1 meter, or 1 quant is 1 inch or something like that.

but if i remember correctly lite-c doesn't really fully support floats anyway (my memory about this is fuzzy but didn't a lot of stuff always require casting to double?) so doubles would be fine too.