You offend anyone with a brain when you write blatantly wrong assumptions about how only the EE master race learn about how integers are represented. Just wher

You offend anyone with a brain when you write blatantly wrong assumptions about how only the EE master race learn about how integers are represented. Just where did you get the idea that an Elecrit Engineer knows more about the types in MySQL than a CS graduate does? You're also the one who brought up the whole education thing, as if the morons who programmed these silly systems that store telephone numbers as integers have any education.