applets wish: beep and sfdisk

Thu Sep 3 16:15:36 UTC 2009

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 09:00:23AM -0700, Cathey, Jim wrote:
>>Perhaps an insane idea of using floating point for this is not
>>totally insane after all... one day molecular/atomic storage may
>>overshoot even 128-bit integers 8)
>
>Where inexact answers are acceptable, so is floating point.

>Here it looks like it's just the bigness of numbers that's
>glazing over the eyes.  One could make a slight case for
>3.235 TB as a printed result, or perhaps just some commas
>in a big integer...

time to depend fdisk on gmp/mpfr ? :P