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What Bytes occupied by double data type in c?

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The number of bytes occupied by a specific data type depends on the implementation. In general, the double data type is eight bytes long, but you can check it using sizeof(double). In 16-bit,32-bit compilers double size is
8 bytes.It looks like float because it stores scientific and financial like big float values.

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