Re:Over 150 new families of Newtonian periodic planar three-...
by psi-squared on Saturday May 06, 2017 @10:21AM
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The paper has a section on this, around the end of page 4, which is really interesting. The short version is: They compared their double-precision results to extremely high-precision Taylor expansions (with theoretical 70+ digit accuracy, and calculated in 100+ digit accuracy), and found that they matched to the accuracy you'd expect.
That doesn't guarantee that the orbits are perfectly periodic, I suppose, but it does suggest that the orbits are stable with respect to rounding errors up to those you get from using doubles.
That doesn't guarantee that the orbits are perfectly periodic, I suppose, but it does suggest that the orbits are stable with respect to rounding errors up to those you get from using doubles.