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In article <pHZNwQ9ytpbI084yn@csn.net>, Thad Smith <ThadSmith@acm.org> wrote:
> I haven't seen IEEE 1596.5, but have to wonder what the uses of
> integers beyond 40 bits or so is.  The primary point of integers is to
> count.  When do you need to count beyond 2 to the 40th?  2 to the
> 64th?

I recently wrote a program that spins through an INN history file and
calcuates the mean delay between posting and arrival for your news spool.
Because the mean delay in seconds times the number of articles can easily
exceed 2^32, I had to emulate 64-bit integers using two longs.

(Look in news.admin.technical for the code.)

Also consider a machine that has a clock accurate to 1 ms, and keeps a
variable with the uptime in microseconds.
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