Re: atan2 template

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html

is a good link

ta, Jim Fuller

On 3/7/07, James Fuller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3/7/07, Dimitre Novatchev <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Cool, yes -- if one can live with the limited precision.
>
> whether we like it our not there is always an implicit upper limit to
> precision....either imposed by underlying operatings system resources,
> etc
>
> I refer you to the various recent articles on 'binary sort' to show
> how a piece of code could be used for 20-30 years and still have bugs
> because of an assumption on precision of underlying systems.
>
> This opened my eyes to actively looking at my code for where it might
> have a problem 5-10 years down the line.
>
> cheers, Jim Fuller
>