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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types" Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 22:30:15 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: <vt1cko$kajs$1@dont-email.me> References: <87y0wjaysg.fsf@gmail.com> <vsj1m8$1f8h2$1@dont-email.me> <vsj2l9$1j0as$1@dont-email.me> <vsjef3$1u4nk$1@dont-email.me> <vsjg6t$20pdb$1@dont-email.me> <vsjgjn$1v1n4$1@dont-email.me> <vsjk4k$24q5m$1@dont-email.me> <vsjlcp$230a5$1@dont-email.me> <vsni1v$291i3$5@dont-email.me> <vt13vp$bjs0$1@dont-email.me> <20250407211216.00006238@yahoo.com> <vt192f$h52j$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2025 22:30:16 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0f20be5607bc98f3c299b1d92ab37b13"; logging-data="666236"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+GkdnqKGC2+X3c7OieIbRM" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:BggBpKm0kq1l2U49SefidUY9YiU= In-Reply-To: <vt192f$h52j$1@dont-email.me> X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Bytes: 2182 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