Re: RFC: Higher resolution time values

[Dan Sugalski]

At 06:16 PM 8/9/00 +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> >>As an engineer I would really like to know when you are going to
> >>run out of precision in double - that is forty something bits of mantissa.
> >>That is more precision than you have in the real world.
> >
> >It's not precision, it's resolution. What do you do if your timers return
> >values in 1/10ths of a second?
>
>What is the problem with that?

You can't accurately represent a tenth of a second with floating point 
numbers. If we're going to handle them, we might as well be exact.

                                        Dan

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