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==Beyond 64 bits==

64-bit words seem to be sufficient for most practical uses today (circa 2004). Still it may be mentioned that IBM's [[System/370]] used [[128-bit]] [[floating point]] numbers, and many modern processors also include 128-bit floating point registers. The System/370 was notable, however, in that it also used variable-length [[decimal]] numbers of up to 16 bytes (i.e. [[128 bit]]).

==See also==