POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : double/single precision : Re: double/single precision Server Time
1 Sep 2024 18:16:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: double/single precision  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 18 Jan 2001 17:41:17
Message: <3A67710E.582B82F7@gmx.de>
Daniel Jungmann wrote:
> 
> Why does Povray use double precision? Why not single precision?

Because it's more accurate.  There are quite a lot of situations where
single precision would not suffice.  

Christoph

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