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

[Dr. Hawkins]

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

> 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.
>

Logarithmic calculations could do this in a single pass . . .


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