Timeline for Why when increasing the speed it's getting to the max speed but in fact it's not the max speed ? why it's not getting to the value 1 but to 0.999999?
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| May 30, 2021 at 21:31 | vote | accept | Daniel Lip | ||
| May 29, 2021 at 1:09 | comment | added | DMGregory♦ | Just noticed there's an error in the above. We can represent numbers slightly above 1 to a precision of \$2^{-23}\$, but slightly below 1 we can represent them to a precision of \$2^{-24}\$. The same argument applies, just at where our delta falls below \$2^{-25}\$ instead, which will change the frame number where we hit the wall. | |
| May 29, 2021 at 1:06 | history | edited | DMGregory♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Better link |
| May 29, 2021 at 0:44 | history | answered | DMGregory♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |