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Conversely, if you use double-precision floating point arithmetic near “null island”, the lat/lon coordinate system becomes more precise than the Planck length.
by kevinventullo 5y ago
Conversely, if you use double-precision floating point arithmetic near “null island”, the lat/lon coordinate system becomes more precise than the Planck length.
- tadfisher 5y agoHence why floating-point is generally a bad basis for coordinate systems. Minecraft is another example, where precision loss results in strange effects far away from the origin.