Philosophical long integer question...

[Grant Edwards]

In article <38E23160.B16860C2 at bioreason.com>, Brian Kelley wrote:

>In the same vein as should 1/2 equal 0.5:
>
>should (1 << 1000) produce a long int?  

My vote would be no, but I write embedded, real-time software
most of the time and am used to being constantly aware of the
machine representation of what I'm writing.

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