// Demonstration on what a typedef is how to declare one. #include typedef unsigned short int USHORT; int main() { using namespace std; USHORT Width = 5, Length; Length = 10; // create an unsigned short and initialize with results // of multiplying length by width unsigned short int Area = (Width * Length); cout << "Width:\t" << Width << endl; cout << "Length:\t" << Length << endl; cout << "Area:\t" << Area << endl; return 0; }