Le 2014-07-01 12:07, Evan Lavelle a écrit : > Not quite sure what any of this has to do with Hardware Description, > though. Anyone who's going to build a huge block of silicon full of > integer multipliers will be using a supercomputer to check their > results, not a VHDL operator. Any arbitrary limit will be reached. Do you remember "640K should be enough for anybody" ? Oh, and what you use today to type this email was considered beyond supercomputer performance 40 years ago. Now, I wonder : modular types of base 2 have natural uses but what about the other bases ? The only applications I know are crypto and ECC using specific Galois fields, which do not justify a whole language revamp... Base 10 is another idea but it's not particularly efficient. Can anybody give other uses of non-binary numbers ? yg -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.Received on Tue Jul 1 03:16:11 2014
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