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How big in bytes are each of the 6 numeric primitive data types?

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boolean - 1 bit (1/8 bytes) - The actual storage requires for a boolean type is not defined for Java implementations.
byte - 1 byte
short - 2 bytes
int/char - 4 bytes
long - 8 bytes
float - 4 bytes
double - 8 bytes

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