...a word data type? And why we need this ,if we can...

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Answer by shashi
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The meaning of data type= types of data. There are various types of data like name,age,sex etc. So a datatype categorise a data in a specific group and allow us specific types of operation perform on it. We store data in a variable. We use datatype when we declare a variable which define what type of data a variable can hold and what type of operation perform on it? Suppose we have a variable that hold numeric value, then we perform arithmetic operation like(Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication etc.) on that value. If a variable hold string value then we can only perform string operation. We can't perform arithmetic operation. So we need a datatype to categorise the various types of data

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Question by Mukesh
Submitted on 6/27/2004
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What is a word data type? And why we need this ,if we can manage with the other data types.

Answer by vsvs
Submitted on 10/10/2005
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16 bit value

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