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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designate an integer value as
 integer*8 ?
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:46:00 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 17:44:06 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:

> The guys at NIST are talking about quadruple precision as a standard.

That’s long overdue, but not in itself a reason for going to 128-bit 
addressing.

Decimal arithmetic is now in IEEE 754, we just have to wait for support 
for it to become more widespread.