[metapost] precision of division

Clément Hurlin Clement.Hurlin at sophia.inria.fr
Thu Oct 12 09:04:46 CEST 2006


> Does what make sense?
I was just wondering if my suppositions about the loss of precision was right.

> Here is what I would do. Assuming that you really want the points
>    q[$] := point $*length pt[1]/i of pt[1];
> I would save those times instead of the points:
>    t[$] := $*length pt[1]/i;
> then if I need to fill a wedge, I would write:
>    fill p3-- subpath(t[$],t[$+1]) of p --cycle;
This works, thanks.

Clément


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