On Friday October 15 2010, Rich Cooper wrote:
> Infinite precision arithmetic repeatedly adds another computer word
> to represent numbers that overflow with the current number of words.
> You were talking about carries propagating across a word, remember? (01)
No, I'm talking about carries from bit to bit. (02)
You can't do anything, iterative or not, in arithmetic without relying
on underlying interations. Period. (03)
Randall Schulz (04)
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