Why double.MaxValue is larger than long.MaxValue?

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Published on 2010-04-14T18:23:06Z Indexed on 2010/04/14 18:33 UTC
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both of them hold 8 bytes, but how come the max value for double is much greater than the max value of long? there is a finite number of bits available, so how could you reach greater numbers with floating point variables?

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