What is a floating constant? Give an example.

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Concept understanding — Constants in C

A constant is a value that is fixed and does not change while the program runs. C constants fall into two broad families.

Numeric constants represent numbers:

Integer constants - whole numbers with no decimal point, e.g. 100, -25.
Real (floating) constants - numbers with a decimal point or an exponent, e.g. 3.14 or 0.1234e-4.

Non-numeric constants represent characters and text:

Character constant - a single character enclosed in single quotes, e.g. 'A' or '='. Each character has a numeric ASCII value (for example the character '=' has the ASCII code 61).
String constant - a sequence of characters enclosed in double quotes, e.g. "BANGALORE". …

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A floating constant is a real number written with a decimal point or in exponential form.

A floating-point (real) constant represents a number that has a fractional part. It can be written in two ways: in decimal (fractional) form such as 3.14 or -0.5, or in exponential (scientific) form such as 1.5e3 (meaning $1.5 \times 10^3$ ). Such constants are store …

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