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meglamaniac · 17 Feb 2006, 20:23

Yeah, that's about as far as I already understand it - it's the specifics which intrigue me, yet I know I'm not really mathematically minded enough to "get" it. It's a bit like thinking about the universe - you see how all these mathematical "special" numbers somehow crop up in nature and go "woah".

Incidentally, you should be able to reduce the problem in your C example by using a double float (or a long float, not sure which is valid off the top of my head) but of course there will always be rounding errors.

17 Feb 2006, 20:23	#23
meglamaniac Born Sinful Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Loughborough, UK Posts: 4,059	Re: Has this been tried for weather forecasting? Yeah, that's about as far as I already understand it - it's the specifics which intrigue me, yet I know I'm not really mathematically minded enough to "get" it. It's a bit like thinking about the universe - you see how all these mathematical "special" numbers somehow crop up in nature and go "woah". Incidentally, you should be able to reduce the problem in your C example by using a double float (or a long float, not sure which is valid off the top of my head) but of course there will always be rounding errors. __________________ Worth dying for. Worth killing for. Worth going to hell for. Amen.