POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Error with pow() : Re: Error with pow() Server Time
4 Aug 2024 08:25:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Error with pow()  
From: Warp
Date: 14 Jun 2003 10:59:45
Message: <3eeb3861@news.povray.org>
Tim Nikias v2.0 <tim### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> Docs say: non-integer results might differ
> for platforms. So this just makes sure that doesn't
> happen.

  Non-integer results may differ even if the exponent is rounded to integer.
Rounding it doesn't really "fix" anything.
  We are talking about differences in the 15th most significant digit or
whatever. Nothing really important.

-- 
#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -


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