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Re:Faster R with FastR by amelius on Thursday October 11, 2018 @01:18PM (#18195282)
Can't you use floats with a large mantissa instead?
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Re:Faster R with FastR by chrisseaton on Thursday October 11, 2018 @07:13PM (#18197788)
That's going to be less than 64 bits of usable space isn't it? I think the largest integer you can fit in a float precisely is 56 bits.
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Re:Faster R with FastR by amelius on Thursday October 11, 2018 @07:29PM (#18197870)
Yeah, but it's still better than a 32 bit integer, I suppose.
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