I understand that with a short you can have 65,536 possible ints, but why can’t you have 255,256 possible values (0 to 255,255 unsigned)? I see that you could do it like this:
Has someone already thought of this? Why isn’t it used?
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I understand that with a short you can have 65,536 possible ints, but why can’t you have 255,256 possible values (0 to 255,255 unsigned)? I see that you could do it like this:
Has someone already thought of this? Why isn’t it used?
That wouldn’t work.
How would you store
254,300?