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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:00:10 +0100
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On 17.01.13 17:16, Adam Beneschan wrote:
> AFAIK there has never been any processor in the history of computing that doesn't support integer arithmetic.


Except that no processor so far has ever supported the set
of integers. ;-)