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Old 10-13-2011, 10:26 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Actually most of the variables are 32 bit, for long term trips/etc. but they need to be promoted to 64 bit, especially for combined multiplication and division routines, so they don't lose accuracy. It is still fixed point math though.
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