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Subtraction of a positive integer of a negative integer results a positive?

989832Feb 7 2013 — edited Feb 8 2013

Hi

I have the next problem and I haven't found the reason...
I have the next Java code:

int a = -2147483648;
int b = 2147483647;

System.out.println(a - b);

The output of this lines is "1", but I don't understand why.

Thanks

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