Hi Thomas and Paul, Thanks for your answers. I understand it better now.
Julie --- In [email protected], "fireplace_tea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I'm a little confused on the amount of memory each variable type takes > up in RAM. I understand about bits and bytes and ASCII. I.E. If you > type in DOG each letter is one byte, thus the entire word DOG is three > bytes. If each character is one byte how is it that a long int > variable type that can be up to 10 bytes in length only take up 4 > bytes of memory? > > Thanks, > Julie >
