9(2).99 how many bytes take? Why . consider as a byte?

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9(2).99 how many bytes take? Why . consider as a byte?..

Answer / paray2x

It does take 5 bytes. Here the "." is an explicit decimal
point. This format is generally used only for display and
not for computations.

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9(2).99 how many bytes take? Why . consider as a byte?..

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5 bytes

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