C Programming - Floating Point Issues - Discussion

Discussion Forum : Floating Point Issues - General Questions (Q.No. 2)
2.
What will you do to treat the constant 3.14 as a long double?
use 3.14LD
use 3.14L
use 3.14DL
use 3.14LF
Answer: Option
Explanation:

Given 3.14 is a double constant.

To specify 3.14 as long double, we have to add L to the 3.14. (i.e 3.14L)

Discussion:
15 comments Page 1 of 2.

Rathisha said:   7 years ago
What is difference between float and double?

Gyan said:   10 years ago
Please briefly explain.

Madhavi said:   1 decade ago
3.14 can be just double now why is it long double? Can anyone please explain.

Mahendra Kumar Verma said:   1 decade ago
@Chaitanya.

In which book defined all type according to your explanation!

Rathi said:   1 decade ago
A floating-point constant without an f, F, l, or L suffix has type double. If the letter f or F is the suffix, the constant has type float. If suffixed by the letter l or L, it has type long double.

Sri ram said:   1 decade ago
Double is also like floating point but having size of 4 bytes,double has 8 bytes,long double has 10 bytes and integer has 2 bytes.So long double can store larger floating points also.Here 3.14 is a long double.

Rajesh said:   1 decade ago
For the long double LF is used in c.

Harshareddy said:   1 decade ago
The double is used for floating 44.45, int for integers like 2,567etc , long double for large floating values like 6.98765342 .

Pavan said:   1 decade ago
What exactly difference between double & long double & int?

Subhalaxmi said:   1 decade ago
What is the use of LD & DL?


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