Double Class

A Double is an intrinsic data type in REALbasic. A Double is a number that can contain a decimal value, i.e., a real number.

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It can take on a value between 2.2250738585072013 e-308 and 1.7976931348623157 e+308. In other languages, REALbasic's Double may be referred to as a double precision real number. Because Doubles are numbers, you can perform mathematical calculations on them. Doubles use 8 bytes of memory. The default value of a Double is 0.0.

The VarType function returns a value of 5 when passed a Double.


Example

The Single and Double data types allow you to store and manage floating point numbers.

Dim d as Double
d=3.14159265358979323846264338327950

See Also

Boolean, Color, Integer, Single, String data types; -, +, *, /, <, <=, =, >=, >, <>, \, IsNumeric, Mod, Val, Str, VarType functions; Dim statement.