Board Thread:Off-Topic/@comment-202.150.1.24-20130428045153/@comment-4795804-20130513121936


 * 1) The player doesn't usually have more than a few million, so it is highly probable that the game programmers store the money value in 4 bytes only. In computers, most of integer numbers are stored in 4 bytes (usually 1, 2 or 4 bytes, while 8 are rather uncommon because it is usually not needed), so the range of values is from 0 to 232-1 (4,294,967,295) or from -231 (-2,147,483,648) to 231-1 (2,147,483,647). The range with negative values is more common, even if it is not needed to store negative numbers in the variable, because it is easier to detect an overflow of the variable. So, it isn't probably possible to have more than 2,147,483,647 (or 4,294,967,295) money in the game.
 * 2) The guy was just trolling about the 500,000,000,000+ money. He knows it, you know it, I know it, everyone knows it.