And they’re useless if you want to combine different data types together. Luckily, C provides us with proper alternatives out of the box.

Unlike many other languages, JavaScript does not distinguish between integers and floating-point numbers. 42 and 3.14 are both Number types. BigInt, as its name suggests, only covers integers, and ...

Microsoft This spreadsheet taps data types that are connected to the Wolfram Alpha database. For now, the Wolfram data types are relegated to the Office Insider channel, and most aren’t quite ...

Microsoft is bringing more than 100 new data types into Excel for Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscribers. Excel users will be able to track stocks, pull in nutritional information for ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft Excel used to only allow two types of data: text and numbers.