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Gangnam Style Surpasses YouTube's 32-bit View Counter

Posted by samzenpus on from the winning-the-internet dept.

First time accepted submitter neoritter writes "The Korean pop star PSY's viral music video "Gangnam Style" has reached the limit of YouTube's view counter. According to YouTube's Google+ account, "We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views), but that was before we met PSY. 'Gangnam Style' has been viewed so many times we had to upgrade to a 64-bit integer (9,223,372,036,854,775,808)!"

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  1. Re:unsigned int anyone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Because they were following the Google C++ Style Guide?

    "You should not use the unsigned integer types such as uint32_t, unless there is a valid reason such as representing a bit pattern rather than a number, or you need defined overflow modulo 2^N. In particular, do not use unsigned types to say a number will never be negative. Instead, use assertions for this."

  2. Re:Rick-Roll by Charliemopps · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, if you combine all different versions it beats even the 64bit integer.
    Techsmartly made a fancy pivot chart of it a while back:
    http://techsmartly.net/freePS3...