Am 23.08.2010 09:18, schrieb Le_Forgeron:

> Could computer technology get past the wall of 384 bits for integer one
> day ?

Computer technology already does that. Typically not in hardware, but in 
software it's state of the art.

> (and what would they compute ?)

Cryptographic stuff for instance. Current encryption and digital 
signature technology typically require integer computations with 1024 
bits or more.

It's not really difficult to implement, actually. All you need to do is 
think of a processor's "native" integer types as digits. For instance, 
on an 8-bit processor you'd perform your computations in base 256.

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