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Data Type Modifiers

Data Type Modifiers

Get introduced to data type modifiers.

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Introduction #

The maximum value that can be stored in a variable of type int is 2147483647. What if we want to store a value greater than 2147483647?

Run the code below and see the output!

C++
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main() {
  // Initialize variable
  int number = 2147483649;
  // Display variable value
  cout << number;
 
}

If we run the code given above, it does not give us the expected output. The above code should print 2147483649, but it is printing -2147483647 in output. So how can we handle values greater than the range of a data type? Similarly, how can we decrease the amount of space allocated to a particular variable? Here, data type modifiers come to the rescue.

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