i'm planning to realize an astronomical clock (to compute moon, planets positions, rises and sets and so on..)
I definitely need to use 64bit double precision math functions, since the equations are running on long times. (big angles in sinus, cosinus...)
i firstly planned to use a raspberry pi 1 (in python), but i recently discovered the esp8266, and, compared to the RPI, i'm really attracted by it cause of :
- the really low power need (since it'll be on power, night and day)
- the fast booting time (the clock has to be ready quickly if unpowered)
(i don't need network. the clock (time) setting is done by a gps module.)
But i found out that micropython doesn't support 64bit double prec float...

Is that a soft or hard limitation ? is there is a way to workaround it ?
Thanks a lot for answering
Matthieu, Brussels