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4 Oct 2024 23:15:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Numerical Precision  
From: Warp
Date: 10 Sep 2007 10:19:33
Message: <46e55275@news.povray.org>
Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> To realy be able to use more presision in your floating point operations, you 
> need a different HARDWARE: an FPU with more bits than the current implementation.

  Not really. There exist libraries for arbitrary-precision floating points.
They are, of course, not as fast as native floating point numbers, but it's
certainly possible.

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                                                          - Warp


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