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dheera on April 5, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon

No, if an overflow at 65535 occurs it would be to 0, not negative.

signed 16-bit ints are -32768 to 32767, unsigned 16-bit ints are 0 to 65535

maximilianroos on April 5, 2023 [–]

<a rare sighting of an int17>

muzani on April 6, 2023 | [–]

Why allocate more bits than you ever need?

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