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From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <20030427064014.H40030-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
>             Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> writes:
> : option  USE_PI_DIGITS	100
>
> Only if you could implement it with integer math :-)
>

where's the problem in that ? most mp libs use integer arithmetic, and
x86-64 gives you 64x64->128 bit widening multiplies 8-)

> Warner
>