Limit of arclength when calculating intersectiontimes ?

Toby Thurston <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Apr 2025 11:43:20 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.metapost
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Can I draw your attention to this question on TeX.SE?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/741317/15036

Apparently MP fails to calculate `intersectiontimes` if either path has a `arclength` > 32767.99997 regardless of the number system being used.

Is this limit of `2**15-epsilon` baked in somewhere?

Toby


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