The company has also developed software to demonstrate its potential -- including an e-reader app that wraps text around any extended digit in order to preserve the flow of your text.

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Highly successful companies get that way through extended periods of double-digit growth, and then markets and analysts come to expect that growth.

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So it was clear as long ago as 1991 that the 32-digit scheme would have to be extended.

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This area marked stiff resistance ahead of the stock's long descent toward the single-digit range, and could now provide a springboard of support for an extended rally.

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