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Re: JULDAY-CALDAT problem [message #38251 is a reply to message #38239]

Fri, 27 February 2004 05:28

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Luciano writes:

> This is simply wrong and should be fixed at some level! I understand
> all the hardware, 0s and 1s, significant figures and related problems
> described in your "Help! The Sky is Falling!" section. But... don't
> you think this should be fixed somehow?

I don't know. If you can throw a couple of tons of machine
at Mars and hit your target within a couple of hundred feet,
you are probably close enough. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. Let's just say I presume when we all have 64-bit processors
in our computers that numbers will get a LOT more accurate
than they are now.

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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		Re: JULDAY-CALDAT problem By: James Kuyper on Fri, 27 February 2004 08:17
		Re: JULDAY-CALDAT problem By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 27 February 2004 08:06
		Re: JULDAY-CALDAT problem By: David Fanning on Fri, 27 February 2004 05:28
		Re: JULDAY-CALDAT problem By: lucianor on Fri, 27 February 2004 02:30
		Re: JULDAY-CALDAT problem By: David Fanning on Thu, 26 February 2004 08:51
		Re: JULDAY-CALDAT problem By: David Fanning on Thu, 26 February 2004 08:41
		Re: JULDAY-CALDAT problem By: btupper on Thu, 26 February 2004 08:17
		Re: JULDAY-CALDAT problem By: David Fanning on Thu, 26 February 2004 07:22
		Re: JULDAY-CALDAT problem By: btupper on Thu, 26 February 2004 06:52
		Re: JULDAY-CALDAT problem By: David Fanning on Thu, 26 February 2004 06:19
		Re: JULDAY-CALDAT problem By: Mark Hadfield on Sun, 29 February 2004 14:50

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