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> I always wondered why the calculations are single-precision. That always
> seemed stupid to me.
>
>Speed.
No, not speed. Floating point math these days is almost always
handled by a math coprocessor (nearly all computers have had them
since the early 1990s) and math coprocessors are designed to run
optimally for double-precision math.
>plus most programmers are mathematically incompetent.
Well, there's that... I see a number of functions in EL that look
like they were written by following a classical math textbook rather
than a book on efficient computer algorithms.
-A
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