6 INTEGER AND FLOAT DATA TYPES
In Chapter 5, I detailed string and boolean data types. In this chapter, I’ll pivot to numeric data types, specifically the integer and floating-point data types, investigating them in great detail. Batch handles integers with ease, whether they be of the decimal, hexadecimal, or octal variants.
However, floating-point numbers are similar to booleans in that Batch doesn’t actually support them explicitly as a data type. But once again, that limitation affords the imaginative Batch coder with an opportunity to be inventive, and that’s exactly what we’ll do before this chapter is done.
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