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Why a 4-byte floating point number can actually hold fewer distinct values than a 4-byte integer?

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Why a 4-byte floating point number can actually hold fewer distinct values than a 4-byte integer?
posted Apr 29, 2014 by Atul Mishra

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If I got your question correctly, Integer variable has total 4 bytes (32 bits) to use where in case of float 3 bytes (24 bits) are used for decimal portal and remaining 1 byte to store the precision.

answer Apr 29, 2014 by Harshita
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