Gleb <gk1### [at] sotonacuk> wrote:
>> Not quite.  Strictly speaking, it's the amount of free memory, or the
>> largest number that can be stored in a long integer, whichever comes
> first.
>> (or in practical terms, the amount of free memory).

> Thank you, Mark, this is what I wanted to know.

  You will never reach the largest number limit in your PC (unless you have
more than 4 gigabytes of memory), so it really is just the amount of free
memory that is the limit.

> I'm also curious how stable is the current natural splines implementation,
> when handling huge amount of control points, because it seems that there
> are some matrix calculations involved, which possibly can be unstable
> above some limit. Is it correct?

  What do you mean by stability?
  I don't understand how the implementation can become unstable for a bigger
number of control points.

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