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| 02 Oct 2011 10:33 PM |
45000000000 < 18446744073709551615
To the right is the highest unsigned integer that can be represented by 64 bits. This is indeed a shocking development. |
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myrkos
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| 03 Oct 2011 12:14 AM |
128-bit integer can go up to 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,455.
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LocalChum
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| 03 Oct 2011 12:19 AM |
^ o_o
i herd dey b workin' on 128 bit :o |
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Seireihen
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| 03 Oct 2011 01:51 AM |
Too many bits and the computer'll be slow. :(
~God Troll strikes again~ |
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| 03 Oct 2011 02:24 AM |
| Bits go up by powers of two... and when you look at the numbers in this thread, you understand how much of a progress going from 32 bits to 64 bits is... O_O |
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| 03 Oct 2011 06:10 AM |
9001 bit? ;o
-The naked old man who is possibly chocolate... |
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| 03 Oct 2011 08:42 AM |
We have enough bits when we can use a single integer to indicate ones position in our universe with precision of 0.1 mm.
Then we can make better spore. |
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| 03 Oct 2011 09:06 AM |
| Game consoles (Wii, xbox, PS [I think]) already are 128 bit I'm pretty sure. |
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| 03 Oct 2011 09:34 AM |
18 quintillion isn't all that big...
~IT'S FREEEEEEE!!!! |
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| 03 Oct 2011 09:57 AM |
| @Person, in words, not really. In numbers, maybeh. |
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| 03 Oct 2011 10:12 AM |
"Game consoles (Wii, xbox, PS [I think]) already are 128 bit I'm pretty sure."
I'm not really sure what "128-bit" would mean in that situation.
I mean, they certainly don't have more than 2^64 bytes of RAM... |
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| 03 Oct 2011 05:33 PM |
@Snc It's for the Bus and register sizes, snc. It lets them do computations on larger numbers in fewer FLOPs.
2^128 is just the /maximum/ memory allowed when you can address larger numbers in a single register. |
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