03-12-2005 21:16
16million would make it top at i beleive around 48bits (not sure)... i'm willing to bet it's actually more like 64bits... The one thing i could never get is floating points... but it would make sense to me that the ceiling would be either 2.1billion or 4.2billion... and i'm almost tempted to find out (and i can too)...

i know that those two numbers are associated with signed and unsigned 32bit integers respectively but those're integers... and i admit ignorance of how bits determine floating points... hmm... wonder which one it is...
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