Integer (computer science) at least 32 bits on any computer. Programmers may also incorrectly assume that a pointer can be converted to an integer without loss of information, which may work on (some) 32-bit computers, but fail on 64-bit computers with 64-bit pointers and 32-bit integers. A "short integer" can represent a whole number that may take less storage, while having a smaller range, compared with a standard integer on the same machine. In C, it is denoted by short. It is required to be at least 16 bits, and is often smaller than a standard integer, but this is not required. A
Blum integer Blum integer In mathematics, a natural number "n" is a Blum integer if "n = p×q" is a semiprime for which "p" and "q" are distinct prime numbers congruent to 3 mod 4. That is, "p" and "q" must be of the form 4"t" + 3, for some integer "t". Integers of this form are referred to as Blum primes. This means that the factors of a Blum integer are Gaussian primes with no imaginary part. The first few Blum integers are Blum integers were named for computer scientist Manuel Blum. All Blum integers are numbers a square-free factor number.