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Programming and Data Structures
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Programming and Data Structures

by Ashok Kamthane
August 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
604 pages
21h 39m
English
Pearson India
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436 Programming and Data Structures
13.5 STRUCTURES READ AND WRITE
It is important to know how numerical data is stored on the disk by f p rin t f () function. Text and
characters require one byte for storing them with f print f ( ) . Similarly for storing numbers in memory
two bytes and for floats four bytes are required.
All data types are treated as characters for example the data 3456, it occupies two bytes in memory.
But when it is transferred to the disk file using f p rin t f () function it would occupy four bytes. For
each character one byte would be required. Even for float also each digit including dot ( . ) requires
one
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ISBN: 9789332506343