Help for this exam paper Q

[Face]

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I cant get understand what is the error of this.I found the answer, But can't understand the error.

[Herath]

value is defined a short type variable. But 2 is "int" by default. The error (warning) is loss of precision. Because "int" is 32bit of size. The result of (value*2) is going to be int as I think. Then has to be converted to short in order to be assigned to the "value". So the value has to be cast manually.
possible fixes for this are

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value=(short) ((short) value * (short) 2);

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value*=2;

But you can always cast a 16bit data type in to a 32bit or higher size type without any problem.

[Face]

thanks brother.!