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From: simon@rheged.dircon.co.uk (Simon Brooke)
Subject: Crunched numbers
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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 19:46:32 GMT
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In article <3al0k6$rop@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au>,
Magao <u9253513@uow.edu.au> wrote:
>quirk@unm.edu (Taki Kogoma) writes:
>
>>djohnson@seuss.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) was observed writing message
>><DJOHNSON.94Nov16132829@seuss.ucsd.edu> in alt.folklore.computers:
>>>DAMN IT, I'M REAL!
>
>>Ah.  FORTRAN.  Some of us are float. ;-)
>
>>Then again, how do you know you're not int?  Or double? ;-)
>
>>>Stop this intolerant bullshit.
>
>>Hrm...
>
>   But then again, some of us, not wanting to confine ourselves to either
>a small domain or a specified number of significant digits are going gcc
>and therefore have decided we are long long ... ;)
>

While thoth of uth who lithp are either complecth or just plain bignumth.


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