[daip] Re: SETFC
Eric Greisen
egreisen at NRAO.EDU
Mon Jun 26 17:03:25 EDT 2000
Joseph Lazio writes:
> Hi,
>
> Within the FLYEYE subroutine of SETFC appears the following
> computation
>
> XD = RAD2DG * ACOS (SINFLD * SINDEC +
> * COSFLD * COSDEC * COS (XRA*DG2RAD - SRA))
>
> I've discovered that numerical errors can conspire to produce an
> argument to the ACOS function slightly larger than 1.0. May I suggest
> that this line be replaced by the following fragment
Done.
Eric
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