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How does Nasa round off its number in its math eq
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post Jul 9 2013, 06:56 PM
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When calculating orbital paths for unmanned spacecraft how does NASA round off its numbers when doing calculations if at all?
Do they use unrounded off numbers throughout the math and round it off at the end? or never round off?
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- ncc1701d   How does Nasa round off its number in its math eq   Jul 9 2013, 06:56 PM
- - djellison   In what context, specifically? What are you attem...   Jul 9 2013, 07:13 PM
|- - ncc1701d   QUOTE (djellison @ Jul 9 2013, 08:13 PM) ...   Jul 9 2013, 10:03 PM
- - Hungry4info   This is more of a computer science question than a...   Jul 9 2013, 10:20 PM
|- - ncc1701d   QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Jul 9 2013, 11:20 PM...   Jul 11 2013, 04:51 AM
- - djellison   An appropriate introduction might be the documents...   Jul 11 2013, 04:54 AM

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