From: Mark Levis <mlevis AT voyager DOT net>
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Subject: Re: having trouble with long numbers
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 18:33:08 -0400
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Michèle C. Dupré wrote:
>>I want to be able to have more than 10 digits print out (if the age
were
>>10,000 years for example).
>>I am new to C (and programming in general) and teaching myself, so any

>>criticism will be appreciated.

Use a double. It will have precision up to 14 digits. An int will only
handle number from
-32767 to 32768.
unsigned int 0 65535