Java in 21 Days (8th Edition) Day 2: The ABCs of Programming

Notes and Corrections

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Certification answer: Answer (c) is correct.
Answer (a) is incorrect. The short and int data types cannot hold a number that large. A short variable can hold numbers from -32,768 to 32,767 and an int variable can hold numbers from -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647.
Answer (b) is incorrect. The int data type holds numbers from -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647.
Answer (d) is incorrect. The byte data type holds numbers from -128 to 127.