[Yt-dev] precision in io

[Stephen Skory]

Hi all,

> With the current setting, the halo attributes
> are outputted with 9 decimal points, but the ellipsoid parameters determined
> using the particle's position (when the data is 64 bit) has 16 decimals.

just to clarify, what I've done is to add the option to the
halos.write_out() function (that outputs the HopAnalysis.out file) to
add 5 or so extra columns for the ellipsoid information. So what
Geoffrey is thinking about is increasing the precision of all the
floats in that text file.

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