What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Points
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Came across this link today: http://floating-point-gui.de/
It breaks down the problems with floating points arithmetic in a nice manner. A bit easier to digest than many of the other articles on the subject.
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It would have been better to choose a shorter length than an inch for the default unit in SketchUp. It should probably be a millimeter at the largest.
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Shortest unit in SU is a 1/1000 of an inch.
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but no matter what SU still uses 1 inch as its internal unit. It converts from an inch into everything else.
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@jim said:
It would have been better to choose a shorter length than an inch for the default unit in SketchUp. It should probably be a millimeter at the largest.
I've read that international domestic architecture is done entirely in millimeters. No fractions required.
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The UK building industry uses mm for lengths and square-metres for areas [although land-surveyor's use metres and letting-agents/developers still think in square-feet to confuse us!], day-to-day younger people use cm/m, but "oldies" [like me!] think in feet and inches: although personally I'm pretty 'bilingual' [bimetrical?] - I'll say to some one we want a rafter "50x100, 10feet long" !!!
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@tig said:
... although personally I'm pretty 'bilingual' [bimetrical?]
How about: multi-metrological ?
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@dan rathbun said:
@tig said:
... although personally I'm pretty 'bilingual' [bimetrical?]
How about: multi-metrological ?
Don't get me started by mixing Latin and Greek roots !
I know 'multimetric' is an actual word but...
'Malametric' would be a purer word - using two Greek roots - or perhaps we could inventpanmetricorpanmetronicbased on the 'parametric' model ? Unfortunately 'polymetric' is already taken in music =to do with 'more than one meter' and 'polimetry' =to do with studying politics; but something along the 'polyglot' or polymath' lines seems more attractive - perhapspolymetronic? 
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Polymetronic seems like it would require batteries.
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