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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Make own type (object) type in javascript.
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2015 01:33:28 +0100
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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

> Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:
>>jonas.thornvall@gmail.com writes:
>>>Is it possible to create an object holding holding 1 bit, 2 bit, 3 bit
>>>that still can be treated as a numerical value that can be added and
>>>subtracted, without bit operations?
>>No.
>
>   An attempt at implementing an object »holding« 8 bit:

It seems unlikely that he meant can one store small whole numbers in
64-bit floating point variables.  He's been doing that for months
(years?).

<snip>
-- 
Ben.