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Subject: triple variables?
From: "Brett O'Donnell" <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:34:04 -0500

With Tiger supporting 64-bit, is there a chance of a new variable type that would extend the 10^306 limit of the double floating point variable? It may sound extreme, but I'm working on a queueing simulation app, and it requires relatively large factorials (since 170! = 10^306). It is "possible" in some cases to simplify the algorithms to push that ceiling back a bit, but if I could just have a G5 be the minimum requirement for numbers over 10^306 it'd be fine with me.

I realize that the two aren't necessarily related, but with 4GB of RAM being listed as a limit, I was wondering when if there was a way to raise our variables to the next level too.

Thanks
Brett

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