Mike Raiford <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Taking into consideration that POVRay uses double precision floating 
> point values (at least as built on intel platforms, others may vary) 
> there are 52 mantissa bits. In normalised form, this yeilds actually 53 
> bits of precision (the first bit is implied to be 1) which gives a 
> maximum representable whole number of: 9,007,199,254,740,992

  POV-Ray uses an internal limit which is much lower than that.

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