[Info-vax] VMS process communication

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/18/2023 9:23 AM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Fri, 2023-03-17 at 16:06 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>     3.14159265358979
> 
> Looks correct but NASA doesn't use more than 15 digits for calculations
> within the solar system, the biggest error at that distance is the
> width of one's little finger.
> 
> They do say that we only need 37 decimal places to encompass the entire
> universe (estimated to be 46 billion light years) to slice an hydrogen
> atom into two at that distance.

The test was done on VMS Alpha so with no
/FLOAT qualifier the first result was a G-float
and the second result a pair of G-float.

Arne