diff --git a/src/types/cast.md b/src/types/cast.md
index 79e070d375..3ab4143180 100644
--- a/src/types/cast.md
+++ b/src/types/cast.md
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ fn main() {
     // Unless it already fits, of course.
     println!(" 128 as a i16 is: {}", 128 as i16);
     // 128 as u8 -> 128, whose two's complement in eight bits is:
-    println!(" 128 as a i8 is : {}", 128 as i8);
+    println!(" 128 as a u8 is : {}", 128 as i8);
 
     // repeating the example above
     // 1000 as u8 -> 232