On 5 Jan 2011, at 2:08am, TR Shaw wrote: > On Jan 4, 2011, at 7:53 PM, Simon Slavin wrote: >> >> >> Back then I was programming on a PDP11, so both numerator and denominator >> were probably 72 bits long. The routines always stored fractions in >> normalised form, so ... <spreadsheet> ... you could multiply the first 18 >> prime numbers together, up to 59, before it ran into problems. In practise, >> of course, this almost never happened. > > Not that I remember; ints were 16bits and longs were 32bits and floats were > 32 and dfloats were 64bits on a PDP-11
You're absolutely right. It was a PDP-10, not a PDP-11. Sorry, I worked with the PDP-11 later and got confused. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
