Types in Scala, Long, Int, etc.

There’s nothing Scala-specific about this. It’s just a matter of the target type of the assignment being irrelevant to the type in which an operation (multiplication in this case) is performed.

For example, in C#:

using System;

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        int a = unchecked(86400000 * 150);
        long b = unchecked(86400000 * 150);
        long c = 86400000 * (long) 150;
        long d = 86400000 * 150L;
        Console.WriteLine(a); // 75098112
        Console.WriteLine(b); // 75098112
        Console.WriteLine(c); // 12960000000
        Console.WriteLine(d); // 12960000000
    }
}

The unchecked part here is because the C# compiler is smart enough to realize that the operation overflows, but only because both operands are constants. If either operand had been a variable, it would have been fine without unchecked.

Likewise in Java:

public class Program
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        int a = 86400000 * 150;
        long b = 86400000 * 150;
        long c = 86400000 * (long) 150;
        long d = 86400000 * 150L;
        System.out.println(a); // 75098112
        System.out.println(b); // 75098112
        System.out.println(c); // 12960000000
        System.out.println(d); // 12960000000
    }
}