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Id Category Description Syntax E/W
Character String Data BASIC Character string data is represented internally as a sequence of ASCII characters. Character strings can represent either numeric or nonnumeric data. Their length is limited only by the amount of available memory. Numeric and nonnumeric data can be mixed in the same character string (for example, in an address).      
Numeric Data BASIC All numeric data is represented internally either as floating-point numbers with the full range of values supported by the system's floating-point implementation, or as integers. On most systems the range is from 10-307 through 10+307 with 15 decimal digits of precision.      
DATA SYS Use with a filename to specify the data file. Specify DATA immediately before the filename. To delete only the data file OVERDUE but retain its dictionary, enter the following:      

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