The conventional pocket calculator can handle up to eight digits - TopicsExpress



          

The conventional pocket calculator can handle up to eight digits only, so the largest number that can be represented is 99,999,999. All modern CPUs can operate on 32-bit binary data, enabling them to work directly with values up to 4,294,967,296. Most also support 64-bit operation (when used with a 64-bit operating system), for values up to 18,446,744,073,709,551,656. This means they can work with huge numbers at full speed with perfect accuracy. It also means a 64-bit operating system can support millions of terabytes of memory, while 32-bit systems are limited to 4GB (of which, in practice, only around 3.5GB is usable in Windows).
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 06:27:13 +0000

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