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Nasdaq's 32-bit code can't handle Berkshire Hathaway's monster share price

Tom 7

O analogue computers half ones programming time was scaling everything to get it to fit in a useful part of the computers range and then scaling it back to the real world. Even 32 bit FP numbers made life so much easier for many of us.

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