Re: Adding double-float values together

From	"Julio Di Egidio" <julio@diegidio.name>
Newsgroups	comp.programming
Subject	Re: Adding double-float values together
Date	2013-08-24 15:49 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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"Robert Miles" <milesrf@Usenet-News.net> wrote in message 
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> On 8/20/2013 2:53 PM, Julio Di Egidio wrote:
>> "Jongware" <jongware@no-spam.plz> wrote in message 
>> news:521347b8$0$15903$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl...
<snip>
>> It is very easy here to overflow a 32-bit integer, as that would be just 
>> 2 GB.  But I don't see any point in using doubles either, 64-bit integers 
>> would be ideal: simpler, much more performant, and, I'd assume, virtually 
>> impossible to overflow.
>
> I've seen some programs over at PrimeGrid that would overflow them easily, 
> when trying to find prime number integers with at least a
> million digits.

Cool, just not the problem at hand.

Julio

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Adding double-float values together industrial_one@hotmail.com - 2013-08-14 09:40 -0700
  Re: Adding double-float values together Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-08-14 18:23 +0100
    Re: Adding double-float values together industrial_one@hotmail.com - 2013-08-14 10:35 -0700
      Re: Adding double-float values together Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-08-14 19:22 +0100
        Re: Adding double-float values together industrial_one@hotmail.com - 2013-08-14 12:20 -0700
          Re: Adding double-float values together Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-08-15 02:05 +0100
            Re: Adding double-float values together Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-08-15 02:36 +0100
            Re: Adding double-float values together industrial_one@hotmail.com - 2013-08-14 18:42 -0700
              Re: Adding double-float values together Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-08-15 03:04 +0100
                Re: Adding double-float values together industrial_one@hotmail.com - 2013-08-14 21:17 -0700
                Re: Adding double-float values together Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-08-15 08:39 -0700
                Re: Adding double-float values together Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-08-15 17:02 +0100
                Re: Adding double-float values together industrial_one@hotmail.com - 2013-08-16 02:25 -0700
                Re: Adding double-float values together Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-08-16 12:45 +0100
                Re: Adding double-float values together industrial_one@hotmail.com - 2013-08-20 01:55 -0700
                Re: Adding double-float values together Jongware <jongware@no-spam.plz> - 2013-08-20 12:40 +0200
                Re: Adding double-float values together "Julio Di Egidio" <julio@diegidio.name> - 2013-08-20 20:53 +0100
                Re: Adding double-float values together Robert Miles <milesrf@Usenet-News.net> - 2013-08-24 09:22 -0500
                Re: Adding double-float values together "Julio Di Egidio" <julio@diegidio.name> - 2013-08-24 15:49 +0100

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