I discovered a quite funny bug by accident. This happened in the SunOS
compile of povray 3.1g. I don't know what happens with other versions.

  My intention was to type the command line parameter +sp4 but typoed and
I typed +ap4 by mistake. This is a quote from the information output by
povray:

Tracing Options
  Quality:  9
  Bounding boxes.......On  Bounding threshold: 25 
  Light Buffer.........On  Vista Buffer.........On  Draw Vista Buffer...Off
  Antialiasing.........On  (Method 1, Threshold
9528200089505357511927975732891309666386650186914757602252905823604330445985647391358393391819091527890019789696847957320939455165762047854155825387231843298634414437923829633759180647226585185946611378937528628377819193388791158836135818996518271946423113124112160250521773228576185974421773573029426626560.000,
Depth 3, Jitter 1.00)
  Radiosity...........Off


-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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On 9 Sep 1999 04:51:01 -0400, Nieminen Juha <war### [at] cctutfi> wrote:

>  My intention was to type the command line parameter +sp4 but typoed and
>I typed +ap4 by mistake.
>[..]
>(Method 1, Threshold 98..60.000, Depth 3, Jitter 1.00)

  That's weird, Warp. What was the rest of the command line? Did the scene
render properly?

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Alan Kong <ako### [at] pacbellno-spamnet> wrote:
:   That's weird, Warp. What was the rest of the command line?

./x-povray -i test -w320 -h240 +ap4

: Did the scene render properly?

  Yes.
  That huge number seems to be always the same so it doesn't seem to output
just random garbage.

  PS: I don't know if it's relevant, but Sparcstations use 128-bit long
doubles (and 64-bit doubles).

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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Nieminen Juha <war### [at] cctutfi> wrote:
:   PS: I don't know if it's relevant, but Sparcstations use 128-bit long
: doubles (and 64-bit doubles).

  I just noticed that this sentence might be a little non-understandable.
What I meant was:
  In Sparcstations the type 'long double' is 128 bits (and the type 'double'
is 64 bits).

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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