Widening Conversions –are the safest because they usually do not lose information. They convert from one data type to another type that uses greater amount of space to store the value (such as a shortto an int) • Narrowing Conversions are more likely to lose information than widening conversions are. They often convert from one type to a type that use less space to store a value, and therefore some of the information may be lost (such as an intto a short) •These conversions do not change the type of a variable or the value that's stored in it –they only convert a value as partofacomputation