short
This type is a 16-bit, signed, two's-complement integer. The main reasons for using short are to match external values already present in a file or to economize on storage space where you have a large number of such values.
range of values: –32,768 to 32,767
literals: There are no short literals. You can use, without a cast, int literals provided their values will fit in 16 bits. You can use char, long, and floating-point literals if you cast them.
As with byte, assignments to short must always be cast into the result if the right-hand side of the assignment involves any arithmetic.
The last two primitive types, double and float, are floating-point arithmetic types. Before we look at the features of double and float, Limited Accuracy ...
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