What is the biggest data type?

I'm trying to write a code that converts a number to scientific notation. For this I need a bigger data type than int that can store large numbers + large decimals.
I wanted to write a code that converts a number to scientific notation, only to find out long doubles already do that :/
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For future reference (scroll to the chart):

http://cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/variables/
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