Data Types in Scala (Class -29)

 In a programming language, a data type is also known as type, tells the compiler about the type of data that is used by the programmer.

The Scala data types are taken as it is from Java and the storage and length are the same. There are many different types of data types in Scala.

1 Byte = 8 Bits.

Data Types	Values	Storage	Default Value	Usage
Boolean	True / False	2 Bytes	FALSE	Only 2 values.
Integer	minus 2147483648 to 2147483647	4 bytes	0	Commonly used in programming.
Float	IEEE 754 single-precision float.	4 Bytes	0.0F	For the decimal point numbers.
Double	IEEE 754 double-precision float.	8 Bytes	0.0D	To handle decimal point numbers that needs larger value and more precision.
Char	0 to 216-1 Unicode	2 Bytes	\u000'	To handle character assignments stored as unsigned Unicode characters.
String	any length	40 Bytes (Empty String)	Null	Used to store a character sequence in a program.