"Integer number too large" error message for 600851475143

user446654 picture user446654 · Sep 21, 2010 · Viewed 148k times · Source
public class Three {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Three obj = new Three();
        obj.function(600851475143);
    }

    private Long function(long  i) {
        Stack<Long> stack = new Stack<Long>();

        for (long j = 2; j <= i; j++) {
            if (i % j == 0) {
                stack.push(j);
            }
        }
        return stack.pop();
    }
}

When the code above is run, it produces an error on the line obj.function(600851475143);. Why?

Answer

Yuliy picture Yuliy · Sep 21, 2010

600851475143 cannot be represented as a 32-bit integer (type int). It can be represented as a 64-bit integer (type long). long literals in Java end with an "L": 600851475143L