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From: [e-mail] (Gonzalo Garramuno)
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Subject: Re: LW's FP precission - I AM ASHAMED
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Ernie,

I am ashamed to say that you are absolutely right.  Ignore my previous
posts.  I was NOT scaling the sphere, that's why it was working.  I guess
I need to get some sleep, for being so silly.  I had not realized it was
a ratio problem (difference between micro/macro proportion), as you had
clearly explained in your original post.  I assumed it only happened on
macro proportions.  How silly of me: any scene with that goes over the
ratio will have problems.
It makes PERFECT sense, now.
I take the problem is LW's floating point precission, and
working with more precission should solve the problem.
Is there a way to easily work with higher precision numbers from a
programming stand-point (ie. make LW work with higher precission
by developing your own floating point routine -not being constrained to
what the compiler's highest precission fp number is)?

Gonzalo Garramuno
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Buenos Aires, Argentina