Prim Tear above 2000 height?

Is there an optimum height for placing buildings? I recently bought a building and I am experiencing some prim tears in the building. I placed the building at a height of 2012? I am wondering if this is to high to place a building. Is there an optimum height to place buildings on a sim so that they will not experience any prim tearing?

OK, I'm ready to learn a new term. I just did a search of the archives for "prim tear," but can't find any previous post that uses the term. I've been in this forum for a long time, but this is a new one on me. What does it mean? Can you post a photo, maybe?

I suspect this is referring to slight rounding errors in individual object positioning because the "Z" coordinate isn't maintained to a high enough precision. They can be noticeable in small objects as low as 768 meters.

Sounds like good old ever loving prim drift.

In the cases I've seen there's no "drift" involved. The prims just plain rez in the wrong spot.

Why do physics go crazy and become unreliable at higher altitudes?

This happens even for non-physical objects. The "Z" coordinate is a floating point number with a limited precision. Once it gets large enough it's not possible to represent the position of an object down to the millimeter, centimeter, and once you get high it can't even indicate the correct meter, or even kilometer.

For example, when I used a push script to orbit myself over a couple billion meters all my attachments were "rounded down" completely off my avatar, and all the individual sections of my avatar were "rounded down" to the same vertical position, and I ended up twisted and broken with my eyeballs bedewing my chin like poor old Oedipus.

Wow, I've learned a lot it makes sense now about the Z axis rounding, because most of the Tear where it looked like the objects were kinda phasing in and out or tearing apart occurred mostly in the Z positioning of the objects in question.

Thats about six times the distance to the sun, almost instantaneously. Are you sure it wasn't just relativistic contraction?