At 03:23p -0400 05/14/2003, Franz Walter Klein didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: >Hello Emmanuel, > > >thank you for your code. Of course i started playing with it and found the >following: > >(2 ^ 16) as integer --> 65536 > >(2 ^ 28) as integer --> 268435456 > >(2 ^ 29) as integer --> Can't make 5.36870912E+8 into a integer. > >So it is clear that integers are represented by more than 16 bits. And AS >handles up to 2^28 as an integer but bigger numbers do not seem to be >represented as integers internally. > >In this case 268 MB file size is just enough for my purposes but I am still >curious about that MaxInt in AS. There are actually at least three integer types in AS: short integer integer (the default) double integer -Walter