John W. Colby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed May 18 18:20:58 CDT 2005
ROTFL, of course. My impression is that he was discussing the concept in terms of variable definitions in a specific language (VB) on a specific OS (Windows) on a specific machine (X86). In ACCESS (VBA) an integer is 16 bits, a LONG integer is 32 bits and a byte is 8 bits. In fact you left out the nibble (4 bits) for which instructions exist to manipulate, specifically to enable BCD and the like. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 7:09 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: RE: Integers vs. Long Integers Was: RE: [AccessD] Global Variable On 18 May 2005 at 18:31, John W. Colby wrote: > > NONE of my experience says it takes "3 steps to do with an integer > what it takes 1 step to do with a long". About the only thing that I > would say is correct is "An integer is a 16 bit variable". > Bzzzzzt. An integer is a whole number. In today's PCs they are normally 8,16,32 or 64 bits in size. -- Stuart -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com