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public class MainClass {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    int big = 0x7fffffff; // max int value
    System.out.println("big = " + big);
    int bigger = big * 4;
    System.out.println("bigger = " + bigger);
  }
}

big = 2147483647
bigger = -4








2.1.Data Type Introduction
2.1.1.The Primitive Types
2.1.2.Size for Java's Primitive Types
2.1.3.Default values for primitives and references
2.1.4.Literals
2.1.5.Surprise! Java lets you overflow
2.1.6.Wrapping a Primitive Type in a Wrapper Object: boolean, byte, char, short, int, long, float, double
2.1.7.Print the limits of primitive types (e.g. byte, short, int ...) in Java
2.1.8.Get the minimum and maximum value of a primitive data types
2.1.9.Shows default initial values
2.1.10.Primitive utilities
2.1.11.Return primitive type the passed in wrapper type corresponds to