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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

numeric type

The type of a variable, field, etc., used to store numbers (as opposed, for example, to characters).

Related terms
alphanumeric datacharacter datadata typefloat typeinteger typeliteralnumeric field typereal typevariable typefield type
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Programming › data types
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