How do you write a floating point variable in c?

Answer 1

You declare a floating point variable using the float or double keyword for a single- or double-precision floating point variable, respectively:

float a;

double b;

You reference a floating-point variable just like any other scalar variable by using the variable's name in a compatible expression, e.g.

a += 2;

b /= a;

Floating point literals use a period for the decimal point, no "thousands separator," and use the letter 'e' to denote a power of ten, e.g.

a = 0.123;

b = 123e-3;

Both a and b now have the same value, 123 times 10 to the power of -3 (which equals 0.123).

Answer 2

In C++ we use the float, double and long double data types to represent real numbers with various degrees of precision. The type double provides at least as much precision as a float while a long double provides at least as much precision as a double. On most implementations, a double has twice the precision of a float, however the actual precision is implementation defined.