"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
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> Bill DeWitt wrote:
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> >     So... I am guessing that this is too big a number for POV to handle?
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> > know there is a limit but I forget what it is.
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> No, that's not the concept of floating point numbers, the absolute maximum
> is 1.7 x 10^308 (for double), probably much more than you will ever need,
> but in any case there are only 15-16 significant decimals. Therefore in
> some cases, numbers like 6000000000 can already lead to precision
> problems.


    My problem is that when I contain an iso in a large box, it disappears.

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