Re: [ATM] Accuracy of Mahajan's approximation for Strehl ratio

["Bob May" <bobmay@nethere.com>]

I'd consider a 1Kx1K array to be a fairly small array for doing
this.
Huge arrays of 32Kx32K would probalby do an excellent job of
insuring that you're there and, while that is a huge amount of
memory, most modern computers have room to do it easily if you
are using a windoz compatible compiler as that will allow for
swapping out to the hard drive.
I haven't had to deal with such large arrays as I tend to stay
with microcontroller programming where you generally don't have
much memory to play with nor a hard disk to put things to.  VB
allows for arrays to be up to 65K (-32K to 32K) and I'll suspect
that you can do 2D arrays with that much in each dimension - I'll
note that that would b 4GB of an array!
Bob May
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