OT: PHP 32 bit numbers security issue

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 12:40:14PM +0200, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
> I hate floating point. if you search Google for 2^1023, 



> you get this result:
> 
> 2^1023 = 8.98846567 × 10^307
> 
> However if you search for 2^1024, you don't get a number at all.

Do you prefer to do that in fixed-point?

It's actually neat to be able to use a relatively low number of bits and
still say something meaningfull about 2^1023 .

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