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  Re: Numerical approximation of the gravity of a torus  
From: Warp
Date: 3 Mar 2011 23:22:31
Message: <4d706906@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> *My* point was that if these cubes were the size of sand grains, that 
> inaccuracy doesn't matter. That's why I asked how precise you needed the 
> answer. Plus, if you only sampled the gravity a foot off the surface within 
> a precision of grain-of-sand size, you don't have to worry about point 
> masses. :-)

  I suppose in that sense it could perhaps work, as long as the testing
point is not closer to the surface of the torus than the half of such a
cube.

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                                                          - Warp


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