Re: Not quite one

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From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Organization	PointedEars Software (PES)
Date	2013-12-29 23:06 +0100
Subject	Re: Not quite one
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Michael F. Stemper wrote:

> On 12/29/2013 03:51 AM, jonas.thornvall@gmail.com wrote:
>> Den fredagen den 27:e december 2013 kl. 22:24:38 UTC+1 skrev John Harris:
>>> 1 part in 10^16? What's your problem? That's as good as a National
>>> Standards Laboratory can measure when it's trying hard.
>>>
>>> Which do you want : 1,000,000,000 decimal places, or fast arithmetic ?
>>>
>>> And remember, the square root of 2 has an infinite number of decimal
>>> places (and binary places, and ternary places, and ... ).
>>
>> Well used in geometric and physic problems like procession, planet
>> orbits, and multipler body problems it seem pretty lousy.
> 
> I humbly suggest that javascript is probably not the right language
> for that type of application. You might try c, using "double".

More, javascript is not a language at all.  There is no javascript:
<http://PointedEars.de/es-matrix>

As for “double” in _C_, is that not the same implementation of IEEE-754 
“double precision” floating-point format that is ECMAScript’s Number type?
 
> In fact, you could consider using FORTRAN and "DOUBLE PRECISION". This
> is the kind of application that FORTRAN was designed for.

Same problem.
 
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Not quite one jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2013-12-27 05:28 -0800
  Re: Not quite one Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2013-12-27 11:50 -0200
    Re: Not quite one jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2013-12-27 06:02 -0800
      Re: Not quite one "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-12-27 17:12 +0100
  Re: Not quite one John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-12-27 21:24 +0000
    Re: Not quite one Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-12-28 20:28 +0000
      Re: Not quite one John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-12-30 15:37 +0000
        Re: Not quite one Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-12-31 21:12 +0000
        Re: Not quite one jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2014-01-06 00:55 -0800
          Re: Not quite one "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2014-01-06 01:48 -0800
            Re: Not quite one Dr J R Stockton <reply1400@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2014-01-07 19:06 +0000
    Re: Not quite one jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2013-12-29 01:51 -0800
      Re: Not quite one "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com> - 2013-12-29 15:49 -0600
        Re: Not quite one Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-12-29 23:06 +0100

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