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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Ada 95 Numerics questions for the experts
Date: 1997/08/30
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In article <EFoIvv.JtA.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com>,
Tucker Taft <stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com> wrote:
>...I remember someone
>once arguing for a word size of 72 bits on the grounds that it had
>a lot of factors ;-).

With a storage element of 9 bits, I presume?  I mean the word size
pretty much has to be a power-of-2 times the storage element size,
right?

- Bob