Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:10:48 11/17/98
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On November 17, 1998 at 13:03:38, Bruce Moreland wrote: [snip] >An acceptable solution is to use a 64-bit number to count nodes. On current >machines, this will delay the advent of this problem for something on the order >of a million years. A double would also be peachy. On some machines, floating point is as fast or faster than integer math. Unless you added them in batches, at some point a double would not increment any more (that pesky DBL_EPSILON). But with an IEEE 8 byte double, you should be able to hold about 10^308, which should hold down the fort for a while.
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