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Re:Telescope That ‘Ate Astronomy’ Is on Track to Surpass Hubble by Pxtl on Monday November 21, 2016 @08:25PM (#13010875)
Or just can't do a calculation right because single precision floats lack the granularity for it.
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Re:Telescope That ‘Ate Astronomy’ Is on Track to Surpass Hubble by bzbarsky on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @11:07AM (#13014987)
JavasScript uses double precision floats, unless you're working with float32 typed arrays.
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