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Difference between float and double?

31st Mar 2017, 1:11 PM
Krishna Teja
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The Decimal, Double, and Float variable types are different in the way that they store the values. Precision is the main difference where float is a single precision (32 bit) floating point data type, double is a double precision (64 bit) floating point data type and decimal is a 128-bit floating point data type.
31st Mar 2017, 1:12 PM
Dev
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A float is 4 bytes and a double store 8 bytes A double is twice bigger than a float
31st Mar 2017, 1:17 PM
itumeleng
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