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This article lists some real examples that require more than 512 bits: https://res.mdpi.com/d_attachment/mathematics/mathematics-03-00337/article_deploy/mathema
by pascal_cuoq 7y ago
This article lists some real examples that require more than 512 bits: https://res.mdpi.com/d_attachment/mathematics/mathematics-03-00337/article_deploy/mathematics-03-00337.pdf https://res.mdpi.com/d_attachment/mathematics/mathematics-03...
Note that digits of precision are expressed in decimal unless explicitly given as “bits”, so that the phrase “10,000-digit arithmetic” really means around 33,000 bits.
- tgflynn 7y agoCertainly if you have errors that grow exponentially all bets are off. I wouldn't think that would apply to simply summing a set of numbers though.