In electronics, a comparator is a device that compares two voltages or currents and outputs a digital signal indicating which is larger. It has two analog...

can represent numbers with up to 34 significant digits. A 128-bit multicomparator was described by researchers in 1976. The IBM System/360 Model 85,...

Britton; Yoshiaki T. Daimon; S. F. Sando (October 1976). "128-bit Multicomparator" (PDF). IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 11 (5): 692–695. Bibcode:1976IJSSC...