That's worse than min/max range! The range is always the same, it's just how we interpret that first bit. You can have only positive numbers, or you can shift the range halfway and have positive OR negative numbers ... but the same number of them. Wiki tables confuse the hell out of me, but if someone understands them, this article could be improved an aweful lot by turning this into something that makes sense.
The "Common Sizes" table on this page lists the maximum value of an unsigned short integer to be "32,767 or 2^16 - 1". Isn't 2^16 - 1 equal to 65,535? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 18.208.0.171 ( talk) 00:11, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
That's worse than min/max range! The range is always the same, it's just how we interpret that first bit. You can have only positive numbers, or you can shift the range halfway and have positive OR negative numbers ... but the same number of them. Wiki tables confuse the hell out of me, but if someone understands them, this article could be improved an aweful lot by turning this into something that makes sense.
The "Common Sizes" table on this page lists the maximum value of an unsigned short integer to be "32,767 or 2^16 - 1". Isn't 2^16 - 1 equal to 65,535? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 18.208.0.171 ( talk) 00:11, 11 November 2008 (UTC)