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Lynn McGuire to Lawrence D'Oliveiro

Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designa

16 Oct 24 17:44:06

   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/15/2024 5:34 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 17:03:01 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   >   
   >> I am thinking that 32 bit and 64 bit are here to stay for quite a while.   
   >   
   > I think typical memory sizes are doubling maybe every couple of years, if   
   > not sooner. Currently maybe 48-bit memory addresses are sufficient, but it   
   > will be just a matter of a few decades before even 64-bit addresses won’t   
   > be enough.   
      
   I suspect a decade at most before 256 bit programming and addressing.   
      
   The guys at NIST are talking about quadruple precision as a standard.   
      
   Lynn   
      
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