[racket] 80-bit precision in Racket

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Dmitry Pavlov <dpavlov at ipa.nw.ru> wrote:

>
> > "In hindsight, the use of quad precision appears to have been overly
> > conservative for this problem"
>
> Might be, and may still be, but the precision of astronomical
> observation has grown much since the time the paper was
> written, and so have the requirements to the ephemeris.
>

It seems to me that before you just "throw bits at it" that you might
want to estimate the error.

-- 
~jrm
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