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Re:Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the... by simongr3dal on Friday June 28, 2019 @06:19PM (#20309244)
There are both coordinates and rotations, it would probably be better modeled as a quarternion or something of an even higher order.
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Re:Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the... by vortico on Friday June 28, 2019 @08:13PM (#20309921)
I believe you can actually compute the sunrise time of a location/day that doesn't have a sunrise, and it would be just a complex number (root of some analytic function).
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