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[[Engineering Research Associates]] (later merged into [[UNIVAC]]) designed a series of 24-bit [[drum memory]] machines including the Atlas, its commercial version the [[UNIVAC 1101]], the [[ATHENA computer]], the [[UNIVAC 1824]] guidance computer, etc. Those designers selected a 24-bit word length because the Earth is roughly 40 million feet in diameter, and an [[intercontinental ballistic missile]] guidance computer needs to do the [[Earth-centered inertial]] navigation calculations to an accuracy of a few feet.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://vipclubmn.org/CP24bit.html |title=UNIVAC 24-bit computer genealogy}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=October 2017}}

[[OpenCL]] has built-in intrinsics for 24-bit multiplication that are typically much faster than the full-length 32-bit variantscalculation.<ref>{{cite web |title=integerFunctions(3) Manual Page |url=https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenCL/sdk/2.2/docs/man/html/ctz.html |website=www.khronos.org}}</ref>

== See also ==