Floating numbers are numbers with a fractional component, like 3.25169 and -238.21. Floating point types can represent a wider range of values than integer types. There are two signed floating point number
- Double: It represents a 64 bit floating point number, it is used when floating point values must be very large
- Float: It represents a 32 bit floating point number, it is used when floating point values does not need 64 bit precision