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		jules on Dec 18, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Doing Game Gravity Right Floats are actually much faster than integers.

pfisch on Dec 18, 2012 [–]

That is my point. You are sacrificing the accuracy of a double for the speed of a float.

You are already storing all these values in floats which is inherently inaccurate. Also if the dt becomes very large you have bigger problems than gravity anyway.

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