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Re: Apple and the Holy War

Subject: Re: Apple and the Holy War
From: pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)
Date: 2000/05/07
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Svensk Amat|rAstronomisk F|rening (SAAF)
References: <8eok8n$4s7$1@merope.saaf.se> <20000503205738.14509.00001458@ng-ck1.aol.com> <8erut9$f5j$1@merope.saaf.se> <3914D9D4.22F8E6@dcnet2000.com>

In article <3914D9D4.22F8E6@dcnet2000.com>,
Phoenyx  <quazar@dcnet2000.com> wrote:

> For the sake of argument, there was at least one Apple II programming
> system that supported larger integers. The Apex system supported integers
> up to 15 bytes long!

Bob S-C's DPFP package supported floating-point numbers 10 bytes long.
I once extended it to also support 15- and 20-byte floating-point
numbers.

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References:
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- Re: Apple and the Holy War
  - From: supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)
- Re: Apple and the Holy War
  - From: pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)
- Re: Apple and the Holy War
  - From: Phoenyx <quazar@dcnet2000.com>

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