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uint means “unsigned integer” while int means “signed integer”. Unsigned integers only contain positive numbers (or zero).
An int is a 32-bit integer; a long is a 64-bit integer. Which one to use depends on how large the numbers are that you expect to work with. int and long are primitive types, while Integer and Long are objects.
Ulong is an unsigned long integer datatype in computer programming languages and operating systems. Ulong tea, an alternate spelling for oolong tea.
They're two distinct types, even if they happen to have the same size and representation in some particular implementation. unsigned long is required to be at least 32 bits. unsigned long long is required to be at least 64 bits. (Actually the requirements are stated in terms of the ranges of values they can represent.)
The primitive data types prefixed with "u" are unsigned versions with the same bit sizes. Effectively, this means they cannot store negative numbers, but on the other hand they can store positive numbers twice as large as their signed counterparts. The signed counterparts do not have "u" prefixed.
The limits for int (32 bit) are:
int: –2147483648 to 2147483647
uint: 0 to 4294967295
And for long (64 bit):
long: -9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807
ulong: 0 to 18446744073709551615
uint and ulong are the unsigned versions of int and long. That means they can't be negative. Instead they have a larger maximum value.
Type Min Max CLS-compliant int -2,147,483,648 2,147,483,647 Yes uint 0 4,294,967,295 No long –9,223,372,036,854,775,808 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 Yes ulong 0 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 No
To write a literal unsigned int in your source code you can use the suffix u or U for example 123U.
You should not use uint and ulong in your public interface if you wish to be CLS-Compliant.
Read the documentation for more information:
By the way, there is also short and ushort and byte and sbyte.
The difference is that the uint and ulong are unsigned data types, meaning the range is different: They do not accept negative values:
int range: -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647
uint range: 0 to 4,294,967,295
long range: –9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807
ulong range: 0 to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615
u means unsigned, so ulong is a large number without sign. You can store a bigger value in ulong than long, but no negative numbers allowed.
A long value is stored in 64-bit,with its first digit to show if it's a positive/negative number. while ulong is also 64-bit, with all 64 bit to store the number. so the maximum of ulong is 2(64)-1, while long is 2(63)-1.
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