How are 16- and 32-bit numbers stored?

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A 16-bit number takes two bytes of storage, a most significant byte and a least significant byte. A 32-bit number takes four bytes of storage
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By giving array size
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Little and big endian are two ways of storing multibyte data-types ( int, float, etc). In little endian machines, last byte of binary representation of the multibyte data-type is stored first. On the other hand, in big endian machines, first byte of binary representation of the multibyte data-type is...
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Little and big endian are two ways of storing multibyte data-types ( int, float, etc). In little endian machines, last byte of binary representation of the multibyte data-type is stored first. On the other hand, in big endian machines, first byte of binary representation of the multibyte data-type is stored first. (For detail Info send query) read less
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Numbers like int, long are stored in 2's complement format in memory and the memory is organized using little endian format. And the decimal numbers like float, double are stored using IEEE 754 floating point representation. For more details, contact me on: NineFiveFourZeroEightOneFiveTwoSevenEight
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