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Re: gEDA-user: Number of Layers

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 01:05:29PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > 64 bit machine?  Ready for the 128 bit machines yet? ;-)
> 
> No, that was 32-bit.

Hey TeX uses 32 bit coordinates which an unit which is way
smaller than PCB and the maximum paper size is around 10 
meter IIRC (with a ~5nm resolution).

32 bit (actually 31, there is a sign) gives a large 
range for linear dimensions: 2^31 times the lattice
spacing of silicon is a bit above 1 meter. So 32 bit
is sufficient for the largest chips.

	Gabriel


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