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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 22:30:15 +0200
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On 07.04.2025 21:29, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> 
> ObC: I am currently roughing out a proposal for the ISO folks to
> introduce the 288-bit long long long long long long long long long int,
> or universe_t for short, so that programs will be able to keep track of
> those 100 tredecimillion atoms. Each universe_t will be able to count
> atoms in almost five million observable universes, which should be
> enough to be going on with.

Thus artificially restricting the foundational research not only of
theoretical physics but also of pure mathematics and philosophy? ;-)
Mind that "640kB is enough" experience! :-)

More seriously; there's already tools and libraries that support
"arbitrary" precision were necessary. Not in an 'int' type, though.

Janis