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[Bart Janssens <>]

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:20 PM, naresh 
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 wrote:
> I am trying to find two polyhydron intersection in nef_3 package. But i
> found process is very slow because of exact arithmatic calculations.
>
> So i have question can i use use inexact arithmatic that gives me speed ?

Hi Alex,

Unfortunately, the algorithms from the Nef package can not work with
inexact numbers. I think one would need to use a completely different
approach to make booleans work with inexact math, but that would
probably sacrifice correctness in certain cases.

Cheers,

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Bart