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Integer data types

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- [Instructor] Computers don't think the same way you and I do as humans. Down at their lowest level, computer store data using units of information called bits where a single bit can only have one of two possible values, one or zero. And they use sequences of these binary bits to represent the information we care about. So, how do we bridge the gap between the way we understand information as humans and the way a computer deals with information as ones and zeros. For example, if a computer uses this sequence of bits to represent something, what does it mean? If interpreted to be a number this particular sequence of bits could represent 82. But that same sequence of bits could also be interpreted in a different way as a character to represent the letter 'R'. This is why we associate each piece of data in our program with a specific Data Type, which tells the computer, what we as the programmer intent that data to mean.…

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