Re: Seeking Endorsement: Boost.int128

Peter Taraba via Boost <[email protected]>
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these two publications should explain it:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666827021000633?via%3Dihub

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificial-intelligence/articles/10.3389/frai.2023.1144886/full

going wider with DNNs for higher accuracy. let me know if you have more questions.

Best,

Peter

Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2026 at 1:14 PM

From: "Rainer Deyke via Boost" <[email protected]>

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Cc: "Rainer Deyke" <[email protected]>

Subject: [boost] Re: Seeking Endorsement: Boost.int128

On 4/29/26 21:24, Peter Taraba via Boost wrote:

> Me as a python user for large numbers, I would also love to have int128 in C++

> as well as float128, float256, float512 & float1024 ...

Huge integers I can understand (because sometimes you need results that

are not just precise but exact), but what's the use for float1024?

float256 would already have enough precision to represent measure the

size of the observable universe at Planck length precision.

I'm not saying there isn't a use for such a type, but I'm genuinely

curious as to what that use is.

--

Rainer Deyke - [email protected]

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