What does the M stand for in C Decimal literal notation

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In order to work with decimal data types  I have to do this with variable initialization   decimal aValue   50 0M    What does the M part stand for

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From C  specifications   var f   0f     float var d   0d     double var m   0m     decimal  money  var u   0u     unsigned int var l   0l     long var ul   0ul     unsigned long   Note that you can use an uppercase or lowercase notation

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A real literal suffixed by M or m is of type decimal  money   For example  the literals 1m  1 5m  1e10m  and 123 456M are all of type decimal  This literal is converted to a decimal value by taking the exact value  and  if necessary  rounding to the nearest representable value using banker s rounding  Any scale apparent in the literal is preserved unless the value is rounded or the value is zero  in which latter case the sign and scale will be 0   Hence  the literal 2 900m will be parsed to form the decimal with sign 0  coefficient 2900  and scale 3  Read more about real literals

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It means it s a decimal literal  as others have said  However  the origins are probably not those suggested elsewhere in this answer  From the C  Annotated Standard  the ECMA version  not the MS version       The decimal suffix is M m since D d   was already taken by double    Although it has been suggested that M   stands for money  Peter Golde recalls   that M was chosen simply as the next   best letter in decimal    A similar annotation mentions that early versions of C  included  Y  and  S  for byte and short literals respectively  They were dropped on the grounds of not being useful very often

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M refers to the first non-ambiguous character in  decimal   If you don t add it the number will be treated as a double   D is double

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Well  i guess M represent the mantissa  Decimal can be used to save money  but it doesn t mean  decimal only used for money

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