The turtle moves backward by number steps. (If number is negative, the turtle moves forward.)
Turtles using this primitive can move a maximum of one unit per time increment. So bk 0.5
and bk 1
both take one unit of time, but bk 3
takes three.
If the turtle cannot move backward number steps because it is not permitted by the current topology the turtle will complete as many steps of 1 as it can and stop.
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