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Processing the data tables

A project log for How Far is Mars

A project to continually display the distance to every planet

bill-smithBill Smith 11/03/2015 at 04:190 Comments

I have a script that takes the raw numeric tables and truncates the list and estimates the accuracy. It generates a .pm file

When the values are being calculated, fixed point arithmetic will be used.

Here is a bit of the Earth.pm file:

package Earth;
@params_X_exp0_A = (
	"A: X: T ^ 0",
	"0.99986069925",
	"0.02506324281",
	"0.00835274807",
	"0.00010466796",
	"0.00003490608",
	"0.00003110838",
	"0.00002561408"
);

@params_X_exp0_B = (
	"B: X: T ^ 0",
	"1.75347045757",
	"4.93819429098",
	"1.71033525539",
	"1.66721984219",
	"4.44373803231",
	"0.66875189331",
	"0.58588607490"
);

@params_X_exp0_C = (
	"C: X: T ^ 0",
	"6283.31966747490",
	"0.24381748350",
	"12566.39551746630",
	"18849.47136745770",
	"6282.83203250789",
	"83997.09113559539",
	"529.93478257810"
);
Then, a second script converts these numbers into a truncated binary representation. I put the numbers into a little-endian unsigned char array. The different exponents of T are combined into single arrays with the startIndex indicating the boundary between exponents.

For example, from above, I get info6.h;

extern const int bytesPerFraction;
extern const int bytesPerInteger[];
extern const unsigned char earth_AHi_X[ ];
extern const unsigned char earth_ALo_X[ ];
extern const unsigned char earth_BHi_X[ ];
extern const unsigned char earth_BLo_X[ ];
extern const unsigned char earth_CHi_X[ ];
extern const unsigned char earth_CLo_X[ ];
extern const int earth_sections_X;
extern const int earth_startIndex_X[1];
extern const int earth_terms_X;
and info6.c
/*
6 Digits
BCOUNT (fraction): 3
BCOUNT[A] (integer): 1, max max 1.51664432758
BCOUNT[B] (integer): 1, max max 6.20347631684
BCOUNT[C] (integer): 3, max max 84334.66158130829
Earth:
	X_A: T ^ 0: 0.99986069925
	X_B: T ^ 0: 4.93819429098
	X_C: T ^ 0: 83997.09113559539
... 
*/

const int bytesPerFraction = 3; /* 24; 16777216 */
const int bytesPerInteger[] = {
	1 /* A: 1.51664432758 */,
	1 /* B: 6.20347631684 */,
	3 /* C: 84334.66158130829 */
};

const unsigned char earth_AHi_X[ ] = {
	0x00	/* 0 0x0 */,
	0x00	/* 0 0x0 */,
	0x00	/* 0 0x0 */,
	0x00	/* 0 0x0 */,
	0x00	/* 0 0x0 */,
	0x00	/* 0 0x0 */,
	0x00	/* 0 0x0 */
};

const unsigned char earth_ALo_X[ ] = {
	0xde, 0xf6, 0xff	/* 16774878 0xfff6de */,
	0x8b, 0x6a, 0x06	/* 420491 0x66a8b */,
	0x67, 0x23, 0x02	/* 140135 0x22367 */,
	0xdc, 0x06, 0x00	/* 1756 0x6dc */,
	0x49, 0x02, 0x00	/* 585 0x249 */,
	0x09, 0x02, 0x00	/* 521 0x209 */,
	0xad, 0x01, 0x00	/* 429 0x1ad */
};

const unsigned char earth_BHi_X[ ] = {
	0x01	/* 1 0x1 */,
	0x04	/* 4 0x4 */,
	0x01	/* 1 0x1 */,
	0x01	/* 1 0x1 */,
	0x04	/* 4 0x4 */,
	0x00	/* 0 0x0 */,
	0x00	/* 0 0x0 */
};

const unsigned char earth_BLo_X[ ] = {
	0x70, 0xe3, 0xc0	/* 12641136 0xc0e370 */,
	0x80, 0x2d, 0xf0	/* 15740288 0xf02d80 */,
	0x88, 0xd8, 0xb5	/* 11917448 0xb5d888 */,
	0xeb, 0xce, 0xaa	/* 11194091 0xaaceeb */,
	0xd0, 0x98, 0x71	/* 7444688 0x7198d0 */,
	0x52, 0x33, 0xab	/* 11219794 0xab3352 */,
	0xa1, 0xfc, 0x95	/* 9829537 0x95fca1 */
};

const unsigned char earth_CHi_X[ ] = {
	0x8b, 0x18, 0x00	/* 6283 0x188b */,
	0x00, 0x00, 0x00	/* 0 0x0 */,
	0x16, 0x31, 0x00	/* 12566 0x3116 */,
	0xa1, 0x49, 0x00	/* 18849 0x49a1 */,
	0x8a, 0x18, 0x00	/* 6282 0x188a */,
	0x1d, 0x48, 0x01	/* 83997 0x1481d */,
	0x11, 0x02, 0x00	/* 529 0x211 */
};

const unsigned char earth_CLo_X[ ] = {
	0xba, 0xd5, 0x51	/* 5363130 0x51d5ba */,
	0xd2, 0x6a, 0x3e	/* 4090578 0x3e6ad2 */,
	0xa1, 0x40, 0x65	/* 6635681 0x6540a1 */,
	0x89, 0xab, 0x78	/* 7908233 0x78ab89 */,
	0x15, 0x00, 0xd5	/* 13959189 0xd50015 */,
	0xa9, 0x54, 0x17	/* 1529001 0x1754a9 */,
	0xe9, 0x4d, 0xef	/* 15683049 0xef4de9 */
};

const int earth_sections_X = 1;
const int earth_startIndex_X[1] = {
	0
};
const int earth_terms_X = 7;

These were generated with at least 6 decimal digits of fractions.

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