What Is a Type?

A type does three things:

• It determines how much memory is needed for a data object.
• It determines how the bits in memory are interpreted. (A long and a float might use the same number of bits in memory, but they are translated into numeric values differently.)
• It determines what operations, or methods, can be performed using the data object.

See detail:<<C++ Primer Plus>> p507

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