<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Dmitry Pavlov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dpavlov@ipa.nw.ru" target="_blank">dpavlov@ipa.nw.ru</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"><br>
> "In hindsight, the use of quad precision appears to have been overly<br>
> conservative for this problem"<br>
<br>
</div>Might be, and may still be, but the precision of astronomical<br>
observation has grown much since the time the paper was<br>
written, and so have the requirements to the ephemeris.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It seems to me that before you just "throw bits at it" that you might</div><div>want to estimate the error.</div><div>
<br></div></div>-- <br>~jrm<br>