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> And we don't really need a signed type, do we?

By using a sufficiently-large signed type, all our math is
well-defined.  A 32-bit signed type gives us plenty of room for
today's fab limits, and if that's not enough, a central type lets us
switch to 64-bit types pretty easily.


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References:
- gEDA-user: PCB nanometer git tree
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- Re: gEDA-user: PCB nanometer git tree
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- Re: gEDA-user: PCB nanometer git tree
  - From: Andrew Poelstra
- Re: gEDA-user: PCB nanometer git tree
  - From: Karl Hammar
- Re: gEDA-user: PCB nanometer git tree
  - From: Andrew Poelstra
- Re: gEDA-user: PCB nanometer git tree
  - From: Karl Hammar

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