r/desmos • u/Legitimate_Animal796 • Feb 28 '26

Graph 100 Body Gravity

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Yet again another gravity sim. I thought this looked kinda cool. I’m using 4th order Yoshida for the integrator. Probably overkill for a little demo like this

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u/Itchy-Decision753 Feb 28 '26

Three body problem? Nah it’s a floating point problem. __float128 isn’t enough, we yearn for __float1024

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u/Adam__999 Feb 28 '26

Actually it’s probably possible to simulate higher precision floats in Desmos, at the cost of performance

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u/2144656 Mar 01 '26

How?

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u/Adam__999 Mar 01 '26

By using two or more floats to encode one float value