POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Very cool : Re: Very cool Server Time
4 Sep 2024 13:19:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Very cool  
From: Kevin Wampler
Date: 31 Jan 2010 14:53:19
Message: <4b65dfaf$1@news.povray.org>
somebody wrote:
> 
> Single precision is enough for float. For fixed point, you are looking at
> around 240 bits.
> 

Interestingly, I seem to recall that Java3D has functionality to specify 
coordinates using 256-bit fixed point for exactly this reason.  I never 
made use of that ability though.


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