These data types are universal. however, some languages will interpret them contextually.

Boolean
 - Used for true/false statements
 - Only has two possible values which may be represented as a number or word
   + 0 / FALSE
   + 1 / TRUE

Interger
 - Only whole numbers, no decimals
 - Sometimes called a short or dword
 - 4 Bytes in length, 16-bit
 - Two types:
   + Unsigned short: 0 to 65535         // 0xFFFF
   + Signed short: -32,767 to 32,767    // 0x7FFF
- Often declared as:
   + int x
   + interger x
   + short x
   + unsigned short x
   + signed short x

Long Interger
 - Denoted by placing "long" before interger in place of short
 - Also called a "double"
 - Whole number greater than or equal to a standard interger
 - Must be 32-bits or 8 bytes in length
 - Range varies greatly per language
 
Floating Point (Float)
 - Used to represent approximations of real numbers with precision
 - Uses decimals and often scientific notation
 
Char[n]
 - Char refers to characters, often used to represent ascii symbols and strings.
 - a single char is 1 byte in lenght.
   + char a = "a" // "a" in this example translates to the byte 0x60
 - When a numerical value is added to the char, it becomes a string with that many bytes.
   + char[10] = "abcdefghij" // this string is 10 bytes in length: 0x 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 6A
 - Many high-level languanges simply call char "string" and will automatically intrepret the length