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On Jan 5, 2016, at 6:12 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> 
>>> We use nanometers, I think that's as fixed-point as we need to get :-)
> 
>> Maximum size ?
> 
> 9 billion meters, I think, if you want to avoid the signedness problem.
> 
> It's 2^63 nanometers.
> 

A rather large star. 53 bits (IEEE-754 mantissa) is a small planet.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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