Why can't I use a double to point to a place in an array?

Question

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but whenever I compile code like this I get this error message:
QuickTest.java:16: possible loss of precision
found : double
required: int
System.out.println(s[t]);
I would use an int, but My array that I want to use in other code is 1000 places big. What am I doing wrong?
public class QuickTest{
     static String[] s = new String[200];
   public static void main (String[] args) {
   s[0] ="Why";
   s[1] ="do";
   s[2] ="you";
   s[3] ="own";
   s[4] ="ten";
   s[5] ="Red";
   s[6] ="white";
   s[7] ="and";
   s[8] ="blue";
   s[9] ="hats";
   double t = 2;
   System.out.println(s[t]);
}

Answer 1

I'm confused, I thought an int only went up to 255 (or something around that).Confused, indeed. You thought wrong.
You only need 8 bits to represent an unsigned 0-255. An int is 32 bits. Better go get a good Java book and read up.
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