Iterating until int.MaxValue reached

Question

As a little test I wanted to see how long it would take to count to int.MaxValue in a C# console application. Every few hours I checked the progress. Last night when I thoug

Answer 1

It's called an overflow - the integer wraps around to the lowest possible negative value.

If you want it to stop at maxInt you should replace the <= with a < - at present you can never stop the loop as counter can never be bigger can maxIni.