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Normally a computer allocates a certain amount of memory space to store a number. This means that larger numbers are rounded and so not as accurate. By specifying that a number is a long integer, it is allocated twice the amount of storage space.

For example, the largest integer that can be stored in 8-bits is 2^8 - 1 = 255.

By doubling the storage to 16 bit, it becomes 65535.

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