POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Long time, no see.. : Re: Long time, no see.. Server Time
19 Nov 2024 17:59:48 EST (-0500)
  Re: Long time, no see..  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 24 Jan 2002 12:34:55
Message: <3c5045bf$1@news.povray.org>
In article <3C5### [at] idautbhbse> , Mikael Carneholm 
<mik### [at] idautbhbse>  wrote:

> It seems as the initial clock value passed from the ini file gets
> slightly altered by POV3.5 - the ini file reads
>
> Initial_Clock=0.2
>
> but debugging the value at the first frame, I get
>
> 0.20000000298023224000000000000000 (str:ing the clock value with 32
> decimals)

Floating-point numbers are not precise.  You should never assume they are.

    Thorsten


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