What is the difference between PIC 9.99 and 9v99?

Answer Posted / ananta

In pic 9.99 there is dicemal which ocupy space like when we
calculat number of bytes inthis there is 4bytes where as
pic 9v99
has assumed decimal it contains only 3bytes.

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