There are a couple of good images on this page which make clear the fact that floating point position 'degrades' in discrete steps as the number gets larger. It

There are a couple of good images on this page which make clear the fact that floating point position 'degrades' in discrete steps as the number gets larger. It's not quite the same as counting in logarithmic terms, which is shown for comparison. https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-higher-arithmetic https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-higher-arithme...