Integers vs. Long Integers Was: RE: [AccessD] Global Variable

I worked on the Honewell 6000 series mainframe where the the word size 
was 36 bits

John W. Colby wrote:

>ROTFL so you're saying even THAT is wrong?
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>-----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
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>On 18 May 2005 at 18:31, John W. Colby wrote:
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>>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".
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>Bzzzzzt. 
>An integer is a whole number. In today's PCs they  are normally  8,16,32 or 
>64 bits in size.
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