Because I'm running 64-bit J - now I get it.  Thanks!

On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 7:46 PM Elijah Stone <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Oct 2021, Devon McCormick wrote:
>
> > Shouldn't a floating-point array take up more space than an integer
> > array of the same shape?
>
> Except for booleans, integers are the size of a native machine word, which
> is usually 8 bytes.  Floating-point numbers are double-precision, and
> hence also 8 bytes.
>
>   -E
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