On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 10:50:49AM -0700, George Hartzell scratched on the wall:

> It seems odd.  Are the values large enought that they're causing
> problems with the 32-bit floats?

  Yes.  32-bit IEEE 754 floats offer 23+1 bits of precision, which
  translates to about 7.2 base-10 digits.  Those numbers are 8 digits
  long, so you're going to start to see rounding and clipping oddness.

   -j


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