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Speaking of bugs, It would be nice if solar panels were invincible for some time

Yeah, the reason why is that Pade approximants are built from the taylor series I remember considering using it for a rocket science spreadsheet but the large amount of extra calculations (and the fact that the second derivative was hard to find) made me decide to not use it

Looking into it I think that's for Halley's irrational method (which he said he preffered) while Pade approximants are used for Halley's rational method

The issue with approximanting the function with a parabola is that the parabola could have multiple zeros (so which do you choose?) or none at all. Pade approximants take into account the second derivative and always only have one zero (apart from special cases where the numerator is a constant...

With Halley's method there's also a graphical interpretation of fitting a linear-linear Pade approximant to each point and seeing where it equals 0, the equation for that is much more complex I also saw your comment about this on Welch Lab's video on kepler's equation

Oh shoot yeah you're right why are the challenges so much more complicated now

If I remember correctly gravity assists aren't allowed in voyager quest

Quick question, does this generate random planets or do you put in parameters in for the planet to be generated?

Ok, I'll take a look at this and say I used this of I do end up using it

If I use this in a planet pack should I credit you?

I think why this hasn't been updated is because orbits are elliptical the Delta-V requirements change (quite a bit in the case of Mercury)

If I remember correctly I think one of the OI ranks (It's either pilot or ace) that allows for larger conversation sizes

I leave for a year and the whole forum sets on fire

Damn, I have no idea what my 100m is but it's probably quite slow

I picked up running as a sport in my school and I now have a 5k PB of 21:23