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To be honest, I am not really surprised at the difference. It represents less than 100 milliseconds over a century, and as I am only interested in half a second per day, it is irrelevant.
I may bother to track it down sometime, but since the process goes through well over 100 trig functions, all with a multiplier 'inside and outside' as it were, which are subtracted and/or added to each other, through multiple iterations, it would take more time than it's worth.
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Half a second per day can become quite much while time goes by
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True, but my half-second-per-day only relates only to UTC for the particular day in question.
The referenced calculation is a step in the determination the rotation of the foci of the earth's orbit against the background stars - not a lot!
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Then you might have the explanation as also said below by Harold:
The x87 has build-in trigonometric functions (with proper rounding as already noted) while libraries are used with CPUs that did not have these built-in.
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If you have trig in there that's probably it, the precision of those things varies wildly between different implementations.
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Concentration camping on the loch (10)
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camping = in tent
loch = ness
Concentration = Intentness
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
modified 19-Dec-16 4:32am.
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You are up tomorrow - care to explain for the beginners?
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Quote: I'll be there for you.
The Captain said I had to.
Which movie?
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This isn't the movie you're looking for...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Star Trek Wars IX: Captain Corelli's Mandolin vs The Borg (the Musical)
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What instrument The Borg playing on? The Hammer[^]?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The Clarinet[^] of course!
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You guys are the first to worry about the Borgs' instruments.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Instead of worrying about Borg instruments, worry about the Trumpet in general
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Casablanca?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Debbie Does Tintin?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Odd that he got it right in the cartoon, and then messed up the page title.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Henry Heimlich, life-saving maneuver creator, dies at 96[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Did he choke to death?
I'll get my coat
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Do you need a hug?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Just filled a glass with water and recognized that it (the water) had an 'end-of-year-sale' glued on its back...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Water has a back that can be used to glue something onto? And this back with the sticker was swimming in your glass?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Not only that, but how can water have as use by date that isn't in millions of years?
[Edit] Autocorrect ... [/Edit]
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