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| Date | 2026-02-28 10:15 +1100 |
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| Subject | Re: Recognizer proposal |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
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| From | dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> |
| Message-ID | <69a2258f$1@news.ausics.net> (permalink) |
| Organization | Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net |
On 28/02/2026 5:21 am, Hans Bezemer wrote: > ... > The range of 64bit numbers covers just about everything under the sun, so I agree fullheartedly with the idea that double numbers are close to complete obsolescence. The last time I used triple numbers was when I wrote several IBAN related utilities on a 32-bit platform. Which most double number applications boils down to nowadays. > > But.. I've been around here for a while and I think given there are still people using WORD and vanilla counted strings that the 22nd century Forths will still support double numbers - resulting in 1024 bit double numbers. If the hardware, the OS and its applications still specify doubles then surely Forth has no option but to follow, and Moore's suggestion in his 1989 speech to the ANS-TC that doubles words might be scrapped, somewhat short-sighted? On this forum itself, I recall reading posts talking of crypto apps which apparently requires such numbers and calculations.
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Recognizer proposal anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-02-09 07:49 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-02-10 13:36 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal jkn <jkn+nin@nicorp.co.uk> - 2026-02-10 17:48 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-02-11 11:21 +1100
Re: Recognizer proposal jkn <jkn+nin@nicorp.co.uk> - 2026-02-11 09:05 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-02-11 12:46 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-02-11 13:36 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal jkn <jkn+nin@nicorp.co.uk> - 2026-02-11 20:49 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-02-11 18:37 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-02-13 12:25 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-02-11 14:34 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-02-12 11:35 +1100
Re: Recognizer proposal anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-02-12 07:24 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-02-12 10:59 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-02-12 10:13 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-02-13 13:22 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-02-13 13:07 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-02-12 20:59 +1100
Re: Recognizer proposal albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-02-13 12:35 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-02-13 13:30 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-02-13 13:44 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-02-12 07:35 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-02-12 10:55 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-02-13 08:27 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-02-13 13:43 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal Gerry Jackson <do-not-use@swldwa.uk> - 2026-02-13 23:50 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-02-14 12:53 +1100
Re: Recognizer proposal albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-02-15 13:33 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-02-16 12:18 +1100
Re: Recognizer proposal Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-02-19 13:42 +0100
Evolution of Forths was Re: Recognizer proposal albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-02-19 14:38 +0100
Re: Evolution of Forths was Re: Recognizer proposal dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-02-20 12:33 +1100
Re: Evolution of Forths was Re: Recognizer proposal albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-02-20 11:58 +0100
Re: Evolution of Forths was Re: Recognizer proposal dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-02-24 10:45 +1100
Re: Evolution of Forths was Re: Recognizer proposal Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-02-21 16:35 +0100
Re: Evolution of Forths was Re: Recognizer proposal dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-02-24 13:13 +1100
Re: Recognizer proposal Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2026-02-25 20:25 -0800
Re: Recognizer proposal anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-02-26 06:53 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-02-26 13:09 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-02-27 20:24 +1100
Re: Recognizer proposal Gerry Jackson <do-not-use@swldwa.uk> - 2026-02-27 09:25 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-02-27 14:48 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-02-27 19:21 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-02-28 10:15 +1100
Re: Recognizer proposal albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-02-28 15:34 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-02-28 17:56 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2026-02-28 22:45 -0800
Re: Recognizer proposal anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-03-01 07:54 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2026-03-01 14:17 -0800
Re: Recognizer proposal antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-03-02 00:21 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-03-02 12:36 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2026-03-04 16:48 -0800
Re: Recognizer proposal antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-03-02 00:17 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-02-26 07:32 -0600
Re: Recognizer proposal Stephen Pelc <stephen@vfxforth.com> - 2026-03-02 13:23 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-03-03 13:47 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal Stephen Pelc <stephen@vfxforth.com> - 2026-03-03 14:39 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2026-03-04 16:52 -0800
Re: Recognizer proposal Stephen Pelc <stephen@vfxforth.com> - 2026-03-06 10:54 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-03-06 12:22 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-03-07 17:58 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-03-03 18:33 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-02-11 13:54 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal jkn <jkn+nin@nicorp.co.uk> - 2026-02-11 13:09 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-02-11 15:59 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal jkn <jkn+nin@nicorp.co.uk> - 2026-02-11 20:46 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-02-11 16:30 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-02-12 12:07 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2026-02-12 13:00 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-02-12 12:55 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-02-13 14:17 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-02-13 13:28 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-02-14 01:23 +1100
Re: Recognizer proposal Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-02-16 22:07 -0600
Re: Recognizer proposal dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-02-17 21:25 +1100
Re: Recognizer proposal Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-02-17 08:16 -0600
Re: Recognizer proposal anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-02-21 15:32 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal Stephen Pelc <stephen@vfxforth.com> - 2026-02-17 14:13 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-02-17 20:21 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-02-18 13:08 +1100
Re: Recognizer proposal albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-02-11 12:29 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal minforth <minforth@gmx.net> - 2026-02-18 11:14 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-02-21 15:40 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-02-24 02:43 -0600
Re: Recognizer proposal Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-03-08 18:15 -0500
Re: Recognizer proposal anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-03-09 07:49 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-03-09 10:37 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-03-10 07:35 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-03-10 12:06 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-03-11 09:48 -0500
Re: Recognizer proposal Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-03-09 16:48 -0500
Re: Recognizer proposal Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-03-11 09:45 -0500
Re: Recognizer proposal albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-02-18 12:33 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-02-21 15:48 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-02-25 14:11 +0100
Re: Recognizer proposal NN <november.nihal@gmail.com> - 2026-03-19 19:23 +0000
Re: Recognizer proposal thresh3@fastmail.com (Lev) - 2026-03-19 23:13 +0000
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