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Explain the difference between FLOAT, DOUBLE and REAL. ?
By Manju S Reddy
Explain the difference between FLOAT, DOUBLE and REAL.?????
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Teacher SiliconIndia replied to Manju S Reddy Thursday, March 18, 2010
Hi Manjunath,
FLOATs store floating point numbers with 8 place accuracy and take up 4 bytes. DOUBLEs store floating point numbers with 16 place accuracy and take up 8 bytes. REAL is a synonym of FLOAT for now.