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  Re: Finally reaching the floating point error regime: an homage toPOV-Team  
From: Stephen
Date: 23 May 2011 12:49:33
Message: <4dda901d$1@news.povray.org>
On 22/05/2011 9:32 AM, Warp wrote:
> On 05/22/2011 12:14 AM, Stephen wrote:
>> How does Fractint's deep zooming work, then?
>
> When hardware registers don't have enough precision of the required zoom
> level, it switches to calculating the values via software with much
> larger accuracies. (Obviously this is significantly slower.)

Again, Thanks

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Regards
     Stephen


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