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From: Tom Moran <tmoran@bix.com>
Subject: Re: Ada 95 Numerics questions for the experts
Date: 1997/08/31
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> someone once arguing for a word size of 72 bits on the grounds that it had
> a lot of factors
60 has just as many factors and was in fact the word size, as I recall,
on the CDC 6600 series.