[gmpi] Re: Topic 6: Time representation

I understand your mathematical point, but in what contexts, in your
experience, does this actually become problematic?

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From: "Mike Berry" <mberry@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 8:52 PM
Subject: [gmpi] Re: Topic 6: Time representation


> The problem with floating point time solutions is that they only appear
> to be real numbers. In actuality, they are rounding just like the
> intergers are. They are simply doing it in a way that is much harder to
> predict intuitively. Using a sufficiently resolved integer quanta saves
> tremendous headaches over using doubles. For one thing, you can
> guarantee that every sample boundary has an integer that exactly
> represents it. You cannot do this with floats.
> -- 
> Mike Berry
> Adobe Systems
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