CHAPTER 4

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Working with Numbers

Computers are designed and built to crunch numbers. The programs you write will take advantage of the computational power of computers to provide experiences to users that are completely dependent on your ability to understand and utilize the tools provided by C++ to manipulate numbers. C++ provides support for different types of numbers, this support includes whole numbers and real numbers as well as multiple different ways of storing and representing these.

The C++ integer types will be used to store whole numbers and the floating point types will be used to store real numbers with decimal points. There are different ...

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