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Q: What is the name of the data type used to store long passages of data containing text and alphanumeric characters?
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Why was Unicode created?

256 different characters is not enough Unicode enables the reliable store most of the world's characters in a (2 byte) fixed width mode with 65,564 characters.


In C programming a character variable can at a time store how many characters?

You can store one, however if you make a char array: char[50]; You can make a string out of your array of characters.


Why does a character in Java take twice as much space to store as a character in C?

Different languages use different size types for different reasons. In this case, the difference is between ASCII and Unicode. Java characters use 2-bytes to store a Unicode character so as to allow a wider variety of characters in strings, whereas C, at least by default, only uses 1 byte to store a character.


Types of data type?

A data type that can store integer numbers. The details vary depending on the programming language; many language have different integer types to accomodate different sizes. This lets the programmer use a smaller size (and save memory space) when he only needs to store fairly small numbers - and especially when he needs to store LOTS of fairly small numbers, as in an array. Common sizes include 1 byte, 2 bytes, 4 bytes and 8 bytes of storage.


What data type can store a variable amount?

This all depends on the value you want to hold. A byte, short, int and long all store integers with increasing upper limits, respectively. Floats and doubles hold numbers with mantissas, decimal places. Booleans hold true or false values. Characters hold a character (alpha-numeric values). Strings (not primitive data types but treated as such) hold a list of characters.

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text is a default data type that allows and support any kind of data character digit and special character it store alphanumeric values up to 255 characters a memo store data up to 2GB and it has maximum length of 65,536 character notes


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It doesn't. EBCDIC is a code for encoding characters, not numbers. Of course you can store numbers in an alphanumeric variable, in which case you would use the minus sign for a negative number; but usually, numbers are stored in a more compact format. For example, 2's complement is commonly used to store integers.


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