Improve and expand the data types section in the main tutorial #122
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Wow this is a massive expansion. Thank you!
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Closes #121
This PR adds the following value types:
size_tssize_tunichar2string16string32This PR also adds size and range information plus one typo fix in a comment further down in the page.
The value ranges mainly came from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/data-type-ranges?view=msvc-170, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-1985, and https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/arithmetic_types.html#Integer_types .