Range of float id -2.25e+308 to 2.25e+308

More Questions from Declarations and Initializations

• A long double can be used if range of a double is not enough to accommodate a real number.
• Range of double is -1.7e-38 to 1.7e+38 (in 16 bit platform - Turbo C under DOS)
• A float is 4 bytes wide, whereas a double is 8 bytes wide.
• Size of short integer and long integer can be verified using the sizeof() operator.

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