NSInteger like float are not Objective-C types and do not follow the usual retain/release model. They're just primitives. Assigning values to the property will be sufficient.
Yes. You can only release objects that have a retain count. Primitive datatypes like int, float, and NSInteger do not need to be retained/released because they are not pointers referring to other parts of memory.
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