From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: distance from Easter Island to Chile Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 08:04:59 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87d2gbz08k.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <87mwfguasr.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87ha5o81q8.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1398060323 2069 80.91.229.3 (21 Apr 2014 06:05:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 06:05:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 21 08:05:18 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wc7Lx-0000TV-Pz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2014 08:05:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47605 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wc7Lx-0002x2-9C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2014 02:05:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:QiGqJ8d2nPIHXge0NHCULkKQYFA= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:205017 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97282 Archived-At: I thought the grossness of the first formula was due to the Earth not being completely sphere. Instead, it seems to be due to lack of computing precision. The implication of that should be that the Earth is probably more a sphere than a ping-pong ball straight out of a Chinese factory... scary! If this theory is correct, it could be interesting to see if execution on a 64-bit machine would produce a different result. On Debian (at least), you can check your hardware with 'lscpu', and the OS (the Linux kernel) with getconf LONG_BIT If you have a 32-bit kernel, I say you are safely in the the "32-bit camp", even though you have 64-bit capable hardware (but sometimes 32-bit OSs can run 64-bit software in 64-bit mode). I have heard there are even 128-bit machines among common people these days... But my school's system (Solaris/SunOS) is 32-bit as well and it produces the same result as on my 32-bit desktop Debian. -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573