The nice part about floats is the bit packing is usually standard, meaning you can have them hold arbitrary data, if you sacrifice a couple of bits! There's a

The nice part about floats is the bit packing is usually standard, meaning you can have them hold arbitrary data, if you sacrifice a couple of bits! There's a robot controller that I work with that has a large number of calibration tables, of float32 values. This is where I store the json! :D