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From: cdl@mplvax.UUCP (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: net.lang.f77,net.wanted
Subject: Re: HELP WITH REALS
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Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 00:25:57 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  9 00:25:57 1984
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Organization: Marine Physical Laborator of SIO at UCSD
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Summary: 

You could always get a PDP-8, with its 2^(2^11) ~ 10^600 floating-point
range.  If you could find the floating-point hardware processor that
went with it, you would really have a pretty good system.

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	carl lowenstein		marine physical lab	u.c. san diego
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