C Programming language

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Data types in C: floats and doubles
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Floats and doubles

A float occupies four bytes in memory and can range from -3.4e38 to +3.4e38.

If this is insufficient then C offers a double data type that occupies 8 bytes in memory and has a range from -1.7e308 to +1.7e308. A variable of type double can be declared as:

double a, population ;

If the situation demands usage of real numbers that lie even beyond the range offered by double data type, then there exists along double that can range from -1.7e4932 to +1.7e4932.

A long double occupies 10 bytes in memory.

Some of the data types are given below with their range and how much space they required:

Data Types Range Bytes Format
signed char-128 to + 1271%c
unsigned char0 to 2551%c
short signed int-32768 to +327672%d
short unsigned int0 to 655352%u
signed int-32768 to +327672%d
unsigned int0 to 655352%u
long signed int-2147483648 to +21474836474%ld
long unsigned int0 to 42949672954%lu
float-3.4e38 to +3.4e384%f
double-1.7e308 to +1.7e3088%lf
long double-1.7e4932 to +1.7e493210%lf
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