On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Hugh Aguilar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hughaguilar96@yahoo.com" target="_blank">hughaguilar96@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><div><span>This "Supercomputer Toolkit" looks pretty cool! I skimmed over the article, and will read it completely later on. </span><span style="background-color:transparent">Am I understanding that this uses integer arithmetic?</span></div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, the Digital Orrery used floating point.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><div><span style="background-color:transparent"> It said that it supported quad-precision 128-bit integers (four 32-bit integers concatenated).</span></div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have no reason to doubt this, but the main integrations were done in floating point.</div><div><br></div></div>