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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
Why can't the next step up be 4,096 which is 16 cubed? In a base-16 system, 16 squared is 256, and 16 cubed is 4096, and 16 to the power of four is 65,536.
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I knwo from my days as a DB guy (this was YEARS ago so), that I think if you went from tinyint to just plain int, it went from 255 to 65536. It may be different with different lanagauges as some have stated.