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3.2.1 Integers

_as_octal = 0157255;

A decimal integer starts with a non-zero digit followed by zero or more digits (`0123456789').

_as_decimal = 57005;

A hexadecimal integer is `0x' or `0X' followed by one or more hexadecimal digits chosen from `0123456789abcdefABCDEF'.

_as_hex = 0xdead;

To write a negative integer, use the prefix operator `-' (see section 3.2.4 Operators).

_as_neg = -57005;

Additionally the suffixes K and M may be used to scale a constant by 1024 or 1024*1024 respectively. For example, the following all refer to the same quantity:

_fourk_1 = 4K; _fourk_2 = 4096; _fourk_3 = 0x1000;