Re: sum of 64 bits using 32 bits cpu

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sarahh  <cohen200@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>just to be sure about unsigned int
> I know that in base 10 it is
>~65,000
>when I add it 1  ,I return to 0.
>I don't understand it because I write it in c and I get number bigger
>than the limit.
>what I lost?

The maximum unsigned int is only 65535 on systems using 16 bit
integers. if the system you were using had 32 bit integers, then
you would have gotten different results than you expected,
depending exactly how you wrote the constants and exactly which
format you used to print them out.
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