Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, get some hands-on practice, and explore the topics covered in this chapter with deeper research.
What type would you choose for the following "numbers"?
- A person's telephone number.
- A person's height.
- A person's age.
- A person's salary.
- A book's ISBN.
- A book's price.
- A book's shipping weight.
- A country's population.
- The number of stars in the Universe.
- The number of employees in each of the small or medium businesses in the UK (up to about 50,000 employees per business).
Create a console application project named Exercise02
that outputs the number of bytes in memory that each of the following number types use and the minimum and maximum possible values they can have: sbyte
, byte
, short
, ushort
, int
, uint
, long
, ulong
, float
, double
, and decimal
.
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