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From: jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: More than 32 bits needed where?
Message-ID: <8219@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 21 Feb 88 22:36:25 GMT
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Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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In article <20076@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
>> >Other uses of more that 32 bits is for social security numbers.
>>Note that you don't really integers for this, unless you plan to do arithmetic
>>on SSNs.
>Comparison is "arithmetic". I believe most machines will perform

In all this, nobody seems to notice that SSN's fit quite nicely into
32 bit (signed even) integers.  Or am I missing something?

Jeff Siegal