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Message: [QUOTE="Harald van DÄ³k, post: 4642304"] Only in the abstract machine. An integer may for example, in a concrete translation of a program, very well be represented as a string/float if the implementation determines that the value will not be used for anything else than a conversion to a string/float. Or a compiler may load an integer in a floating point register, because a floating point register happens to be available and all integer registers are already in use. Or, although I doubt it would be a good idea, a conforming implementation of C could be created for a ternary machine, converting behind the scenes between binary and ternary as required. [/QUOTE]