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30 Jul 2024 08:16:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Disappearing Large Sphere Bug in beta 8  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 2 Dec 2001 08:04:36
Message: <3c0a26e4@news.povray.org>
In article <3c0a236e@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

>   Do you think this limit should be expanded, or are there good reasons to
> keep it like it is currently?

The current limit is 10^7 by default.  I think it is reasonable if you
consider that to find the distance you end up with more than 10^14 and have
to take the sqare root.  I think more could be slightly out of the necessary
precision for root finders under some conditions.

    Thorsten

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