Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!fortune!phipps From: phipps@fortune.UUCP (Clay Phipps) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: ... What next, 64 bit micros ? Message-ID: <2790@fortune.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 22:31:23 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2790 Posted: Mon Mar 19 22:31:23 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 01:07:56 EST References: <4079@duke.UUCP> Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 16 64-bit integer arithmetic is nice for exact calculations involving the (USA) federal budget or gross national product, expressed in cents. 32-bit integer arithmetic is inadequate even if the amounts are expressed in dollars. The federal deficit can still be expressed in 32-bit integer cents, at least for the next year or so. :-) Unfortunately, the ASCII numeric to integer (and back) conversion time can be a real killer. -- Clay Phipps -- {allegra,amd70,cbosgd,dsd,floyd,harpo,hpda,ihnp4, megatest,nsc,oliveb,sri-unix,twg,varian,VisiA,wdl1} !fortune!phipps