Is there a reasonable way to use numbers smaller than about 10^-6

[Roger Guay]

This sounds very interesting, Geoff. Sure would like to know what you’re up to….

Roger


On Nov 20, 2013, at 10:21 AM, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Ordinary math seems to peter out at 0.000001.
>>> 
>>> This puts 8.100e-13: put format("%1.3e", (1e0)/(1234567890123e0))
>>> 
>>> So is something like that the best way to go?
>>> 
>> 
> My plan so far is just to do the math. If the result is 0, then increase my
> timescale by 100,000 and try again. (and repeat as necessary) That way when
> there is something overwhelming nearby, extremely distant/small objects
> will have 0 effect, but if there is nothing nearby/large, then
> smaller/farther objects will be applied across timescales that work for
> them.
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