There are many possible applications for documents in which precision is unlimited. Several areas of use include: visualisation of extremely large or infinite data sets; visualisation of high precision numerical computations; digital artwork; computer aided design; and maps.
-In collaboration with Gow\cite{} we have implemented a proof of concept document viewer compatable with a subset of the SVG standard, which has allowed us to explore the limitations of floating point arithmetic and possible approaches to achieving arbitrary precision document formats. Using the Rational representation of the GNU Multiple Precision (GMP) library\cite{granlund2004GMP} we are able to implement correct rendering of SVG test images seperated by arbitrary distances. We present measurements of rendering accuracy and performance for our implementation.
+In collaboration with Gow\cite{} we have implemented a proof of concept document viewer compatable with a subset of the SVG standard, which has allowed us to explore the limitations of floating point arithmetic and possible approaches to achieving arbitrary precision document formats. Using the Rational representation of the GNU Multiple Precision (GMP) library\cite{granlund2004GMP} we are able to implement correct rendering of SVG test images seperated by arbitrary distances. We present measurements of rendering accuracy and performance for our implementation. An alternative implementation based on a spatial approach to constructing the document is discussed by Gow\cite{}.
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