Type conversion in computer science, type conversion, [1][2] type casting, [1][3] type coercion, [3] and type juggling[4][5] are different ways of changing an expression from one data type to another An example would be the conversion of an integer value into a floating point value or its textual representation as a string, and vice versa. The term bit twiddling dates from early. In general, arbitrary binary data contains values that are not printable character codes, so. Two's complement is the most common method of representing signed (positive, negative, and zero) integers on computers, [1] and more generally, fixed point binary values It represents a wide range of numeric values by using a floating radix point
Double precision may be chosen when the range or precision of single precision would be insufficient Numerical values are stored as groupings of bits, such as bytes and words The encoding between numerical values and bit patterns is chosen for convenience of the operation of the computer [citation needed] the encoding used by the computer's instruction set generally requires conversion for external use, such as for printing and display.
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