Double Data Type in C Programming

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Double Data Type - double

Double-precision floating point numbers are also numbers with a decimal point. We know that the float type can take large floating point numbers with a small degree of precision but the double-precision double type can hold even larger numbers with a higher degree of precision.

The sizes of the double types are as follows.

TypeBytesMinimal range
doubleprecision8IE-38 to IE+38 with 10 digit of precision
long double8IE-38 to IE+38 with 10 digit of precision

Example:


Other fundamental data types are

Float Data Type Constants

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