Is there a nice way to split an int into two shorts (.NET)?

Question

I think that this is not possible because Int32 has 1 bit sign and have 31 bit of numeric information and Int16 has 1 bit sign and 15 bit of numeric information

Answer 1

If you look at the bit representation, then you are correct.

You can do this with unsigned ints though, as they don't have the sign bit.