clipka wrote:
> Science cares about high precision.

And, actually, science usually doesn't care about high precicion for that 
matter, either. Usually the accuracy is far less than the precision of a 
single float, if you're talking about any sort of control application. Or, 
in the words of one embedded control programmer I knew: "If you need more 
than six digits of precision and you're not getting feedback to correct 
errors, you've already blown up the wrong building."

Of course, there are *some* apps where having unlimited precision is a good 
thing (POV-Ray springs to mind), but it's always going to be limited by your 
input and output.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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