Well, not just kind of obvious why, but kind of obvious it's not a bug in Java! ...

		rwallace on May 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The compiler is always right Well, not just kind of obvious why, but kind of obvious it's not a bug in Java! If you're dealing with quantities that don't fit in a 32-bit twos complement integer, you need to use a larger datatype.