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Working with variables

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Working with variables

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- [Instructor] To assign a value to a variable, you use an assignment operator. The single equal sign is the most common. The variable sits on the left side of the equal sign. A value or expression sits on the right. In this simple statement, variable A is assigned the value 126. The value assigned a variable can be a literal value or a constant. It can be a value returned from a function. It can be the value of another variable or any C language expression. Here, four variables are declared, one for each data type. The next four statements assign each variable its appropriate data type value: character A, integer two, the floating point value 0.25, and a really big number, 2.5e6 for the double. This is expressed in E notation. Four printf statements output each of the four variables and their values. The character types are character, decimal integer, floating point, floating point. Build and run. And you can see…

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