You need to use floats for performance, but you need double precision calculations

Question

MonoGame is an open source version of Microsoft XNA. This is the basis for building cross-platform games.

It has a number of mathematical types, such as Vector and Quaternion.

I am a little puzzled by how they use doubling and floats.

So far, I have gathered the following information:

• floats are likely to be more effective than doubles;
• doubles accuracy than float.

Here's the method that bothers me:

/// <summary>
/// Transforms a single Vector2, or the vector normal (x, y, 0, 0), by a specified Quaternion rotation.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="value">The vector to rotate.</param><param name="rotation">The Quaternion rotation to apply.</param>
public static Vector2 Transform(Vector2 value, Quaternion rotation)
{
  float num1 = rotation.X + rotation.X;
  float num2 = rotation.Y + rotation.Y;
  float num3 = rotation.Z + rotation.Z;
  float num4 = rotation.W * num3;
  float num5 = rotation.X * num1;
  float num6 = rotation.X * num2;
  float num7 = rotation.Y * num2;
  float num8 = rotation.Z * num3;
  float num9 = (float) ((double) value.X * (1.0 - (double) num7 - (double) num8) + (double) value.Y * ((double) num6 - (double) num4));
  float num10 = (float) ((double) value.X * ((double) num6 + (double) num4) + (double) value.Y * (1.0 - (double) num5 - (double) num8));
  Vector2 vector2;
  vector2.X = num9;
  vector2.Y = num10;
  return vector2;
}

Why not use double floats (e.g. inline num1..num8 as double expressions in num9 and num10)?

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