Unions were designed to save space, using the same memory to store two or more different types of data. They were not meant to be used to extract bytes, nibbles, or bits, nor to implicitly cast data.

By using the right data type for a particular variable and understanding how to convert data types, you can write efficient code and reduce errors in your program.

The other types of variables in Java are: byte – stores whole numbers from -128 to 127; short – stores numbers from -32,768 to 32,767; int – stores whole numbers from -2,147,483,648 to ...

Developers should have a basic proficiency of a language's data types. In this article, Irina Medvinskaya presents an overview of two types of predefined C# variables: value types and reference types.

The SimCorrMix package generates correlated continuous (normal, non-normal, and mixture), binary, ordinal, and count (regular and zero-inflated, Poisson and Negative Binomial) variables that mimic real ...

JavaScript variables hold a wide variety of information and can be used with virtually any data type. Here's how to use variables to store numbers, text strings, objects, and more.

Most of the indices that measure diversity depend on variables that have various statistical types (e. g. circular, fuzzy, ordinal) and that go through a matrix of distances among species. We show how ...