{"id":837,"date":"2007-01-18T16:06:42","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T21:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=837"},"modified":"2010-05-01T22:53:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T02:53:19","slug":"long-vs-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/01\/18\/long-vs-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Long vs Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just love these kind of jokes\/funny statements:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s always a long day&#8230; 86400 doesn&#8217;t fit into a short.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In case you don&#8217;t get it, &#8220;long&#8221; is a data type &#8211; 86400 is a &#8220;long&#8221; integer, as opposed to a &#8220;short&#8221; integer, which can&#8217;t hold bigger numbers. If you know you&#8217;re only going to be dealing with small numbers, you would use a &#8220;short&#8221; integer to save memory space in your program. 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