Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
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> : Further, the documentation should make clear that floating-point math is
> : _not_ precise. Especially in long operations the error will build up
>
>   That's right. The key problem here is the value 0.1. It can't be
accurately
> represented in binary format.
>   We have the same problem with the decimal format with values like 1/3;
> it can't be represented accurately.
>
>   It is NOT a bug. It's just a hardware limitation.
Hmm ... so why not implement a complete algebra-system into POV ???
This would also make it easier to build these physical-modells some people
are always trying to ... ;-)

OK ... I know it would be hard ... Just a thougt ...

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