Explain the difference between FLOAT, DOUBLE and REAL.

Answer Posted / amith

FLOATs store floating point numbers with 8 place accuracy
and take up 4 bytes.
DOUBLEs store floating point numbers with 16 place accuracy
and take up 8 bytes.
REAL is a synonym of FLOAT for now.

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