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[Scrapster]

Someone once told me that your computer couldn't recognize numbers outside of the domain: -32767 <= x <= 32767

Can someone explain to me why this is? Are all computers restricted to this limit?

EDIT: QUESTION ANSWERED. THANKS EVERYONE!

 

[AlphaIVT]

maybe

 

[Philosopher]

define recognize, define computer

 

[Scrapster]

I think this is a C programming rule.

 

[JMaster]

define someone

 

[perry]

That's false. An unsigned long int goes up to 2^32, or signed goes -(2^16) -> 2^16.

-32767 to 32767 is a short int. That's all that was supported in 16bit processors. 32 bit processors support 32 bits...

 

[rangeLife]

someone is a lier

 

[Sparky Anderson]

A while ago in some programming languages this was the case because the computer uses binary numbers (1's and 0's, on and off). 2^16 is 65536, which is how many numbers are inside that range you listed. That was 16 bhits, most puters now are at least 32 bits, which gives you up to around 4 billion different numbers or so. It's hard to explain, there's different ways of representing the numbers too, it's quite complex, but basically the answer to your question is no.

 

[rootaxs]

define definition

 

[Scrapster]

Gotcha.

Thanks guys.