POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : I'm back : Re: I'm back Server Time
2 Nov 2024 05:21:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: I'm back  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 2 Feb 2000 11:06:42
Message: <38985612@news.povray.org>
In article <3897f4ef@news.povray.org> , Nieminen Juha 
<war### [at] punarastascstutfi>  wrote:

>   The value 0.1 is tricky to reprecent in binary format (floating point,
> fixed point, or whatever) since it's to binary format the same as 1/3 is
> to decimal format, ie. it can't be represented accurately.
>   I would suggest that the number after the #version directive is not parsed
> as a float, but as two integers separated by a dot.

This problem is fixed in future versions of POV-Ray.


      Thorsten


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