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Re: Floating point error: Stack Overflow - Huh?

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From: Fuzzy Fox
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:55

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macg9505@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael Alan Corn) writes:

>long double d = acosl(cosl(moon.gamma*rad - sunlong*rad)*cosl(moon.beta*rad));
>long double i = (180 - (d/rad) - (0.1468 * ((1-0.0549*sinl(Mprime))/(1- 0.0167*sinl(M))) * sinl(d)));

Perhaps this is the Basic analogue of the ?FORMULA TOO COMPLEX ERROR.
Maybe if you broke up the calculation into parts and then combined them,
using temporary variables.

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Subject: Re: Floating point error: Stack Overflow - Huh?
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