17 Oct
2009
17 Oct
'09
6:25 p.m.
Adam Ginsburg wrote:
Hi folks, I'm trying to write a ray-tracing code for which high precision is required. I also "need" to use square roots. However, math.sqrt and numpy.sqrt seem to only use single-precision floats. Is there a simple way to make sqrt use higher precision? Alternately, am I simply being obtuse?
How are you actually using the results of sqrt? When printing the results you may not get the full precision...try e.g.
print "%.50f" % np.sqrt(np.float64( 1.034324523462345))
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Dag Sverre