Type double, 64 bits long, has a bigger range (*10^+/-308) and 15 digits precision. Type long double is nominally 80 bits, though a given compiler/OS pairing may store it as 12-16 bytes for alignment purposes. The long double has an exponent that just ridiculously huge and should have 19 digits precision. More @Wikipedia
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