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Re: Not quite one

From "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Not quite one
Date 2013-12-29 15:49 -0600
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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".

In fact, you could consider using FORTRAN and "DOUBLE PRECISION". This
is the kind of application that FORTRAN was designed for.

-- 
Michael F. Stemper
Life's too important to take seriously.

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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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