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Topic: UInt not 32 bit


view this post on Zulip Pascal Pfiffner (Aug 01 2019 at 00:06):

I never noticed this: what is the reason we cap FHIR's unsigned integer datatype at 31 bit (2,147,483,647) and don't allow 32 bit? Same goes for positive int. http://hl7.org/fhir/datatypes.html#unsignedInt

view this post on Zulip Grahame Grieve (Aug 01 2019 at 02:30):

so that an unsigned integer which is a constraint on integer is actually a constraint


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