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Letter: For the record

Published 31 March 2015

• We said that the largest value that can be represented by a 32-bit integer is 2,147,483,647 (13 December 2014, p 21). Our programs would run safely if we got our data types right: we meant that a signed 32-bit integer can store values from –2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647.

Issue no. 3015 published 4 April 2015

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