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Re: Try this [message #13075 is a reply to message #12959]

Wed, 30 September 1998 00:00

bowman
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In article <6uamdh$gid$1@reznor.larc.nasa.gov>, "Joe"
<Post.Reply@This.News.Group> wrote:

> The
> !x and !y structures are not double precision in their .range (and
> other related) fields so it won't matter. This has to be done for
> speed reasons since to make them double would force all plots
> to use double precision calculations along with the attendant
> decrease in computational rate.

Many, if not most, modern Unix workstations have 64-bit floating point
units and do double precision arithmetic as fast or faster than single
precision.

Ken Bowman

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