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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
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Posted: Mon Mar 19 22:31:23 1984
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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

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