Daily Archives: December 10, 2014


Basic Refresher on Signed vs Unsigned Integers

You may have heard recently that Psy's "Gangum Style" video "broke" YouTube due to the database using an signed integer that was 32 bits, never expecting a single video to ger more than 2.147 trillon views.  So they upped it to a 64 bit integer.  interestingly enough, they still left […]