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When I worked for a company that wrote a lot of navigation-related software we fixed circles to have 1024 degrees (but we called them "bams" to avoid confusion)
by leed25d 5y ago
When I worked for a company that wrote a lot of navigation-related software we fixed circles to have 1024 degrees (but we called them "bams" to avoid confusion)
- jonsen 5y agoWhat were the advantages of using that number of degrees?
- marginalia_nu 5y agoYou can bisect it 10 times.
- jimmygrapes 5y agoI would guess the ability to peg things to powers of 2 with enough granularity that a series of bit shifts was more efficient than the alternatives for the application. Speculating, but it reminded me of a similar tactic I saw in demoscene code.
- hinkley 5y agoYou can fit a 3D vector into 32 bits.