Single Double MaxValue and Memory Size : Single « Data Type « VB.Net Tutorial






Public Class Tester
    Public Shared Sub Main
    

        Dim result As New System.Text.StringBuilder
        Dim maxSingle As Single = Single.MaxValue
        Dim maxDouble As Double = Double.MaxValue
        Dim sizeOfSingle As Integer = Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.SizeOf(maxSingle.GetType)
        Dim sizeOfDouble As Integer = Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.SizeOf(maxDouble.GetType)

        result.Append("Memory size of a Single (bytes): ")
        result.AppendLine(sizeOfSingle)
        result.Append("Maximum value of a Single: ")
        result.AppendLine(maxSingle)
        result.AppendLine()

        result.Append("Memory size of a Double (bytes): ")
        result.AppendLine(sizeOfDouble)
        result.Append("Maximum value of a Double: ")
        result.AppendLine(maxDouble)

        Console.WriteLine(result.ToString())
     End Sub

End Class
Memory size of a Single (bytes): 4
Maximum value of a Single: 3.402823E+38

Memory size of a Double (bytes): 8
Maximum value of a Double: 1.79769313486232E+308








2.11.Single
2.11.1.Calculation with Single
2.11.2.Single Double MaxValue and Memory Size
2.11.3.Calcuate Single
2.11.4.Cast Integer to Short, Double to Single
2.11.5.Precision Error
2.11.6.Show difference precision of Single and Double
2.11.7.Pass Single by value and by reference to a Sub
2.11.8.Get Epsilon from Single
2.11.9.Parse(String) method converts an array of strings to equivalent Single values.