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From: ritchie@hpldola.HP.COM (Dave Ritchie)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Forth and Functional Languages
Message-ID: <11440001@hpldola.HP.COM>
Date: 18 Sep 88 05:30:49 GMT
References: <1625@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Organization: HP Elec. Design Div. -ColoSpgs
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>For example, if you multiply "65536 * 65536 * 65536" you'll get the wrong
>answer in Forth or Pascal, because that expression requires a 48 bit integer,
>and neither language supports the automatic overflow of integer arithmetic
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  I don't think so. try 51 bits + sign if in signed representation.
					Dave