C Language Q & A #6
The computer stores decimal numbers in binary form in eight-bit bytes of memory. If a decimal number converts to more than eight binary characters, how is this handled by the computer ?
- In practice, integer variables may have several bytes of memory available, so you could have sixteen or thirty-two bits to store the binary number. You can still overflow a number conversion, in which case, you will get an incorrect value stored in the variable, usually without any warning from the program.