POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Numerical Precision : Re: Numerical Precision Server Time
4 Oct 2024 19:20:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Numerical Precision  
From: scott
Date: 12 Sep 2007 06:39:01
Message: <46e7c1c5$1@news.povray.org>
>> There is no use to only define the variable using extreme precision if 
>> you can't
>> use it at that precision.
>> If you #define a variable at 100 decimal places, you also want to use it 
>> at 100
>> decimal places.
>
>  Yes, like making some calculations with them, printing them, and perhaps
> creating something with them (rounded to the precision used by objects).

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.


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