On Feb 19, 2013, at 12:46 PM, Luca Morandini <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, there it goes my academic track paper on CouchDB and GeoCouch for > FOSS4G '13 :( Are roundoff errors on the order of one part in 2^56 really a deal-breaker for your application? I mean, “17.300000000000000711” does _look_ ugly compared to “17.3”, but the difference is completely negligible for most purposes. Have you worked out how many significant figures of accuracy you need, and are the results correct to within those significant figures? —Jens
