[fitsbits] 64-bit integer comments

[Thierry Forveille]

LC's No-Spam Newsreading account writes:
 > On Tue, 10 May 2005, Thierry Forveille wrote:
 > 
 > > Note that with BZERO and BVAL, BITPIX=64 need not be a count image. 
 >  
 > but if it's not a "count" (or other discrete, quantized quantity) who 
 > will use nowadays an integer with BZERO and BVAL and not use instead a 
 > float or double ?
 > 
Somebody who would need more than the precision of a double. I cannot
identify anybody who does though, though...