Octuple-precision floating-point format: Difference between revisions

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=== Hardware support ===

There is little to no hardware support for octuple-precision arithmetic. The requirements in-order to transport this piece of data are as follows.

* [[8-bit|8-bit architecture]] (statistical extrapolation since it would take 1/8 of the entire memory just to store 1 octuple-precision numeral so it would be impractical) – 32 separate packagespackets of information (at least) in order to transport this across the main data bus

* [[16-bit|x16 architecture]] – 16 separate packagespackets of information (at least) in order to transport this across the main data bus

* [[x86|x86 architecture]] – 8 separate packagespackets of information (at least) in order to transport this across the main data bus

* [[x86-64|x64 architecture]] – 4 separate packagespackets of information (at least) in order to transport this across the main data bus

== See also ==