12.1.

1 RECOGNIZE THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF DATA

 DATA TYPES
• Basic recognize data type as numeric and string .
NUMERIC DATA
• Basic deals with data having numbers that are used in calculations
• For Example : 174 , 16 , 39.82
STRING DATA
• Basic also deals with words or text called string.
• A string consist of all the character words or numbers enclosed by quotation
marks such as “7688 “ , “Pakistan day” , “14 Aug 1947” .
• However arithmetic operation cannot be performed on numbers entered with
quotation mark i-e “ 2 + 5 “ is not processed.