From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP and advanced math
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 08:32:42 -0800
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Lord Shaman wrote:

> My next project is a custom raytracer engine that renders a scene
> that is rendered inside a sphere 16 light minutes accross. Can the
> normal float can handle that kind of data if 1.0 represents one metre?

Sure.  A light-minute is merely 1.08 x 10^12 m.

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