And what I'm trying to get at is that there are about zero CS graduates that do not know that integers usually are limited to the word size of the architecture

And what I'm trying to get at is that there are about zero CS graduates that do not know that integers usually are limited to the word size of the architecture you are working on. If you're talking about really crappy schools and crappy students, then I agree, but what is there to debate then? There are no crappy engineering schools or stupid engineers? The kind of people who write a program that stores telephone numbers as primitive ints are not CS graduates.