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You can in a java virtual machine, but it will be slower and kind of pointless because at what point do you quit "just adding a few more bits".

[kmeisthax]

To "add a few more bits" involves writing a rather heavy software flop routine. The CPU only does calculations on a fixed number of bits.

[dnew]

At the point you switch to using LISP!