In article <39A### [at] faricynet> , David Fontaine 
<dav### [at] faricynet>  wrote:

> Hmm, it takes 30 seconds to generate one layer of my dome, but each layer has
> <300 pieces.

Memory consumption is not directly related to the number of objects to
generate...

> Accuracy and calculation speed.

Accuracy maybe, but speed no.  All modern processors used in personal
computers (and better) have floating-point unit(s) which will be able to
perform basic mathematical operations in the same (if not less, i.e. for
divisions) time as the integer unit(s) do.


      Thorsten


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