stbenge  wrote in message <49027f8c@news.povray.org>:
>								 but since 
> POV-Ray treats all variables as floats, I can't see how it could harm 
> things.

You mean, instead of using an integer counter? There is a big difference:
with most architectures, floats can represent reasonably-small integers in
an exact manner. On the other hand, 1/100 is not an exact float; 1/64 and
1/128 would have been, but not 1/100.

So the point that PoV internally uses floats is not valid: there are more
robust ways to use floats than others, and using an integer counter for
looks is one.

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