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Yeah it can be hard to internalize what this means and when it matters, but basically you get about 7 decimal places of precision regardless of the numbers size
by skellington 4y ago
Yeah it can be hard to internalize what this means and when it matters, but basically you get about 7 decimal places of precision regardless of the numbers size.
So between [-1, 1] you can represent a number like 0.1234567 and then 0.1234568 for a min delta of 0.000001.
But around a billion, you can only represent 1,234,567,000 and then 1,234,568,000 for a min delta of 1000.
These are not exactly right numbers, just rough estimates to get the idea, but the point is if you are trying to do something like add 1 centimeter to a position that is 10,000 kilometers from an origin, you're adding 0, no matter how many times you do it, it will never increment.