Why can't I assign a 'long' a value of 4 billion?

Question

I\'m trying to declare a long value in Java, which unfortunately does not work.

This is my code. It results in the following error message: \"The literal 4294967296

Answer 1

Soufiane is correct. Here is a doc that shows how to declare literals of the various types of numbers in Java:

http://www.janeg.ca/scjp/lang/literals.html