Seriously? Only 12 digits precision? o_O

[CR Haeger]

(02-10-2014 07:46 PM)patrice Wrote:  What can you do with 14 digits that you can't with 12 ?
Counting US debt to the cent?

17.3E12 $US (and growing) is precise enough.

The Prime may not even be fast enough to count the $0.01 growth in real time. Check my math: ~$3.6 Billion growth/day = ~$42 Thousand/sec = ~4.2 "Mhz" in US pennies... Maybe the 400Mhz processor can keep up.