Better description of how this issue affects video games, here: http://home.comcast.net/~tom_forsyth/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BA%20matter%20of%20precision%5D%5D htt

Better description of how this issue affects video games, here: http://home.comcast.net/~tom_forsyth/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BA%20matter%20of%20precision%5D%5D http://home.comcast.net/~tom_forsyth/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BA%... It's funny, I was just thinking about this a couple of weeks ago for a simulation project. Google Code search reveals that Celestia uses a 128b (64.64) position class to solve the problem.