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For the same reason there's a .sucks TLD. There's a market for it.

Define boundary conditions -- how much precision do you need? Then you can compute the min/max distances. If the "world" needs to be larger, then prepare to divide it into sectors, and have separate global/local coordinates (e.g. No Man's Sky works this way).

Really though, games are theater tech, not science. Double-Precision will be more than enough for anything but the most exotic use-case.

The most important thing is just to remember not to add very-big and very-small numbers together.

This isn't accurate. It's true for positive numbers, and when comparing a positive to a negative, but false for comparisons between negative numbers. Standard floating point uses sign-magnitude representation, while signed integers these days use 2s-complement. On negative numbers, comparisons are reversed between these two encodings. Incrementing a float as if it were an integer will, in ordinary circumstances, get you the next one larger in magnitude, but with the same sign -- i.e., you go up for positives but down for negatives. Whereas with signed integers, you always go up except when there's an overflow into the sign bit.

A more correct version of the statement would be that comparison is the same as on sign-magnitude integers. Of course, this still has the caveats you already mentioned.