Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25526539-20150226010925/@comment-24577221-20150301162552

Belthazar451 wrote: BunsenH wrote: The variable used to store the number of coins is a signed 32-bit value. Didn't you pooh-pooh me the last time I suggested it might be a signed integer? =P

Not quite. What I actually wrote was "If so, people would probably be upset if the value rolled over. :-)".  Which was more or less correct, except not for the reason that I expected.  "Why is my number of coins being displayed as a bunch of punctuation characters?" is much less bad than "The game thinks I have negative billions of coins, and won't let me buy anything!"