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  Re: Requesting ideas/opinions for RNG seeding syntax  
From: clipka
Date: 27 May 2009 13:05:00
Message: <web.4a1d71fe38187d7ef708085d0@news.povray.org>
"Phoenex" <rib### [at] sapopt> wrote:
> I believe that now is the time of our architects / engineers begin a new
> approach in building processors for the future.


Um... definitely not.

Even doing exact math with something as "simple" as Geometric Numbers (the
mathematical equivalent of drawing things with compass and straightline) is a
far from trivial thing.

To exactly represent such numbers (and they're really just very basic examples
of how complicated exact numerical representation can get), you'll potentially
need an arbitrary amount of storage *per number*. And to actually do
*computations* with them (or even just *compare* them)... uhm!


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