[fitsbits] BITPIX=64

Francois Ochsenbein francois@vizir.u-strasbg.fr
Fri, 21 Sep 2001 18:03:20 +0200


On my side, I'm convinced by Bill's arguments -- if the usage of FITS
binary tables is expected to continue in the future, I don't see how 
we could avoid the extension to the 64-bit integer arithmetics in the 
future...
Francois 
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