On 30 Aug 2000 09:51:17 -0400, Warp wrote:
>Peter J. Holzer <hjp### [at] sikituwsracat> wrote:
>: Indeed. If you compute this with standard 32 bit integer arithmetic, the
>: result is 925. Probably not what you had in mind. 
>
>  I didn't check if the values would fit into a 32-bit integer, but you get
>the idea.
>  And if integers are ever implemented in povray, there should be a very long
>integer type (at least 64 bits) anyways :)

In which case the space advantage of integers would vanish. 
They would only have a slight accuracy advantage (63 instead of 53 bits
"mantissa"). The speed difference is probably negligible.

I really don't see any advantage in introducing integers in povray. 

	hp

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