On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Nick Sayer via time-nuts <time-nuts@febo.com> wrote: > > I wouldn’t expect floating point to enter into it.
The question here was about conversion to Siderial Time. The mean sidereal day is 23.9344699 hours but that is the MEAN. The length of the day continuously changes. So depending on how accurate you need to be this can use a LOT of 64-bit floating point math. -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
