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Expressions are one of the basic elements of SCL and most SCL statements incorporate expressions. Hence, before starting with the SCL statements, it is important to know what expressions are and how are they formed. Expressions are composed of operands and operators. For example, 5 * 8 is an expression in which 5 and 8 are operands and * is the multiplication operator. An expression can also be formed with a single operand and no operator. For example, 5 is an expression composed of only the operand 5. Operands of an expression can be literals, constants, variables, array elements, calls to routines, or even expressions themselves. The expressions as well as the operands of an expression are associated with a data type. The data type of an operand depends on the nature of the operation. The data type of a literal is determined as follows: ????????Numbers without a decimal point or exponent notation are type integer. However, if their value exceeds the maximum permissible value for an integer, then they are type double. ????????Numbers with decimal points or exponent notation are considered as type real. However, if their value exceeds the maximum permissible value for a real or if they have more than six significant digits, then they are type double. ????????Quoted literals (inside single quotation marks, ` ) are type string. ????????Constant identifiers have the same data type as that of the value assigned to them. ????????Variables always have the data type indicated in their declaration. ????????Routine calls always have their data type indicated in its definition. The data type of an expression is based on the type of the operands and the operator. If an expression consists of one operand only (without any operator), then its data type is the same as that of the operand. In other cases, the data type of the expression is given by the table on the following page. Note that the data types of the operands which can be used with a particular operator are r