I don't know how you found your way onto the addition operator (+) on your keyboard, because that's not at all what I was driving at.

I think you are... JUMPING! TO CONCLUSIONS! (get it?)

Anyway, at it's core, much of the logic within a turing machine winds up being addition in an accumulator. So, you widen the pipeline, and that adds place settings to the numeric values addressed at a location in RAM.

I think we both know that each place setting increases the maximum valus of the addressible unit by an exponential factor of the base, which in computing, and so in this instance, is binary.

Specifically: 2^4096 instead of 2^64

Golly, did I get my math right? This sure is difficult to for me to understand!

Why would anyone want a 4096 bit CPU? Oh, I dunno. I suppose 640K ought to be enough for anyone.