64 bit ints

Clayton Cramer cramer at optilink.UUCP
Wed Nov 9 06:00:54 AEST 1988


In article <1002 at srs.UUCP>, dan at srs.UUCP (Dan Kegel) writes:
> Here's an interesting bit of trivia: the number of human beings living on 
> the Earth cannot be represented in 32 bits.
> Kinda scary, eh?
> -- 
>   Dan Kegel   I saw a bufferfly yesterday for the first time in years...

Only if you need a unique identifier to keep dossiers on all of them. :-)


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Clayton E. Cramer
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