From 6569a434245af0209ddb5f7a46e59b469c1e48db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jpb10 <4648556+jpb10@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 22:47:38 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 93e995b..a0701da 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ Therefore, sunrise and sunset times can only be accurate to the nearest minute ( * Assuming a purely elliptical motion of the Earth, solar coordinates have a "low accuracy" of 0.01° (Meeus, 1998). To this precision, we ignore nutation, delta T, and higher-order terms in the relevant expressions. -* Arduino's single precision floating numbers have the equivalent of `24 * log10(2)` ≈ 7.22 significant digits. +* Arduino's single precision floating numbers have the equivalent of `23 * log10(2)` ≈ 6.92 significant digits. Although this is generally not sufficient for mathematical astronomy (Meeus, 1998), it is good enough for our purposes. ### Sunrise and sunset