On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 11:17:09AM -0700, Tony Peden wrote:

> > I don't think that the math scaling down is a problem unless
> > fixed-point is being used.  If the calcs are in floating point
> > it shouldn't be an issue.
> > 
> > My concern was that the fluid dynamics on a small scale
> > wouldn't behave as predicted by simulations designed for larger
> > objects.  I'm pretty sure that happens, but I just don't know
> > at what size it becomes an issue.  Or maybe I'm just completely
> > off base.
> 
> You are correct, RC-scale flow needs to be treated differently
> than that around full-scale aircraft. That's what I was getting
> at above.

Ah, OK.  I thought you were talking about the math operations
themselves.  I've spend a lot of years doing embedded stuff
that did a lot of fixed point math, so worrying about how the
math scales (as opposed to the underlying algorithm) becomes a
habit.

-- 
Grant Edwards
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