The short data type

There is a data type in C++ known as short.

If you have an instance of the short type, the set of all possible values that you can store in that instance is the set of all the whole numbers ranging from -32,768 to +32,767.

There is also a type known as unsigned short in which you can store all the whole numbers ranging from 0 to 65,535.

65,536 different combinations or values

Each of these types constitute a set of 65,536 different values, including the value zero.