POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Numerical Precision : Re: Numerical Precision Server Time
4 Oct 2024 19:18:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Numerical Precision  
From: andrel
Date: 12 Sep 2007 15:28:22
Message: <46E83ED4.604@hotmail.com>
Orchid XP v3 wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> scott <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
>>> If that's all you want to do, then better to write/use some external 
>>> program to do the calculations then import to POV for rendering.
>>
>>   Any suggestions? ;)
> 
> gp/pari?
> 
> Matlab?
no, all floating point arithmetic (unless with special libraries).
BTW for a real scene you would never need more than a precision of 
1:1e56 (size of the universe divided by the Planck length ;) )
> 
> *cough* Haskell? 0;-)
probably


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