What is the difference between a float and an integer variable type?

The float integer variable type, as the name suggests, only allows integer numbers to be stored(i.e. 1,4,5 etc.). On the other hand, float numbers could be decimal(i.e. 3.14, 5.52352345 ,etc.)

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