POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Random variation : Re: Random variation Server Time
29 Jul 2024 08:17:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Random variation  
From: Shay
Date: 26 Sep 2002 15:43:49
Message: <3d936375$1@news.povray.org>
Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
news:3D93604D.4292E793@gmx.de...
>
> All right, but mathematics don't care about double precision so since
> there is an infinite number of real numbers between 0 and 1...
>

Would this matter? The second hand of a clock points in an infinite number
of directions, but also moves in infinitely small increments, so at some
point each minute the second hand is pointing exactly at the center of the
12 on the clock. It spends as much time in this position as in every other
(infinite) position on the clock.

 -Shay


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.