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# Basic Geometry for .NET
## A library of basic geometric computations for .NET
Programming language: C#
Version: 0.2.0-dev
License: Apache-2.0
The main goals of development of the library were:
1. Performance
2. Functionality
3. Versatility
Performance was the main goal of making of the library. That fact affected
the implementation of the library.
For example, all the entities are implemented as strucutres and the structures
are passed to the methods by reference.
That allows to get perfromance comparable with a similar implementation of
entities and algorithms written in the C programming language.
The library uses two types of floating point numbers: **float** и **double**
(**binary32** and **binary64** types of the **IEEE 754** standard). That
affected the implementation of the library too.
The library is implicitly divided into two halves: one half is for data and
functions of **float** type and another one is for date of th **double** type.
And there are several bridges connect both of the halves. Those bridges are
the functions of the type conversion.
But there are no functions which use data of different types (**float** and
**double** at the same time) for the computations.