Here’s What You Need To Know About Primitive Data Types…

Effiong Abraham
2 min readApr 6, 2023

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A primitive data type is a type of data that can be used in a programming language in its simplest form. These data types are fundamental building blocks of programming languages that are used to represent basic values such as numbers, characters, and Boolean values.

Here are some common primitive data types:

  1. Integers: These are data types used for representing whole numbers with no fractional or decimal parts, whether positive or negative.
  2. Floats: These are data types that are used to represent real numbers with fractional parts as part of their representation.
  3. Double: A data type used to represent double-precision floating-point numbers.
  4. Character: This is a data type used to represent a single character, such as a letter, digit, or symbol.
  5. Boolean: This is a data type used to represent logical values, such as true or false.
  6. Byte: This is a data type used to represent a small integer value, typically ranging from -128 to 127.data
  7. Short: This is a list of types used to represent integer values ranging from -32,768 to 32,767.
  8. Long: This is a list of data types used to represent a long integer value ranging from -9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807.

These data types may differ in terms of their range of values, memory space they occupy, and their precision. Having a good understanding of these types of data is essential for writing code efficiently and without bugs.

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