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+What we will be doing and why.
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+See also the Introduction.
+See also the Conclusion.
+
+\begin{itemize}
+       \item Research into document formats is mostly focusing on embedding dynamic content in the document
+       \item TODO: Desperately try to find research into increasing precision in documents
+       \begin{itemize}
+               \item I suspect the reason it is hard to find references saying ``We increased the precision you can get in this graphics format'' is because the real research is into ``how to get more precision out of a number'' and increasing the precision in a graphics format is just an application.
+               \item Talk about why precision in itself is a good thing?
+               \begin{itemize}
+                       \item Reduced error in computations
+               \end{itemize}
+               \item Somehow manage to link this to graphics formats.
+               \begin{itemize}
+                       \item Increased precision means you can have more zoom, you can have more range
+                       \item This is useful because the view of a document as a sheet of paper is increasingly outdated
+               \end{itemize}
+               \item Precision in itself is necessary in order to address the document format issue.
+       \end{itemize}
+       \item In particular we are looking into increasing precision vs IEEE floats because:
+       \begin{itemize}
+               \item Such research is important in its own right; eg: Doing numerical calculations requires high accuracy results
+       \end{itemize}   
+       \item 
+\end{itemize}
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+I guess what I am trying to say very badly is:
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+We want to be able to do more things with documents.
+We are currently limited by the precision of floating point operations. This is a fundamental and physical limit on what can be done.
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+Even things like postscript are already turing complete. All the fancy papers about putting dynamic content and javascript and things in documents
+are not addressing a physical limitation, merely one of convenience for the document creator.
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+So it is worth looking into how we can reduce or eliminate the physical limitations on what can be done with a document due to floating point precision.
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