[Solved] Why do Primitive Data Types have a Fixed Size?

As low-level programming languages, the designs of C and C++ closely follow what common hardware is capable of. The primitive building blocks (fundamental types) correspond to entities that common CPUs natively support. CPUs typically can handle bytes and words very efficiently; C called these char and int. (More precisely, C defined int in such a … Read more

[Solved] Cannot find the value of X in Java 42L + -37L * X == 17206538691L

It’s not completely clear what you are looking for, but note that java long arithmetic is effectively done mod 264. You can investigate modular inverses and the extended euclidean algorithm yourself, as well as how java handles integer overflow. The BigInteger class makes doing these experiments relatively easily, as this example shows. public class Main … Read more