What we will be doing and why.

See also the Introduction.
See also the Conclusion.

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	\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			\item This is useful because the view of a document as a sheet of paper is increasingly outdated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 
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I guess what I am trying to say very badly is:

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.

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.

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.


