Re: Limit of arclength when calculating intersectiontimes ?

On 4/23/2025 12:43 PM, Toby Thurston wrote:
> 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?

as mickep already answered there, intersection calculations happen 
inside the 'valid' scaled range and actually the 32K is already 
exceeding the 4K here

Hans

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