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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!rei2!fox
  3. From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
  4. Subject: Re: Floating point error: Stack Overflow - Huh?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec21.185539.2482@rei.com>
  6. Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:55:39 GMT
  7. References: <BzFu1z.MvJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
  8. Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.
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  10.  
  11. macg9505@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael Alan Corn) writes:
  12.  
  13. >long double d = acosl(cosl(moon.gamma*rad - sunlong*rad)*cosl(moon.beta*rad));
  14. >long double i = (180 - (d/rad) - (0.1468 * ((1-0.0549*sinl(Mprime))/(1- 0.0167*sinl(M))) * sinl(d)));
  15.  
  16. Perhaps this is the Basic analogue of the ?FORMULA TOO COMPLEX ERROR.
  17. Maybe if you broke up the calculation into parts and then combined them,
  18. using temporary variables.
  19.  
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