Re: Numerical accuracy/precision - this is a bug or a feature?
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- Subject: [mg120309] Re: Numerical accuracy/precision - this is a bug or a feature?
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 06:14:06 -0400 (EDT)
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On 17 Jul 2011, at 12:02, Richard Fateman wrote: > I think your comment might be more aptly directed toward the study of > pure math. Since I've raised the hackles of the physicists, why not > poke the mathematicians in the eye too. (My Phd is in Applied Math, my > bachelor's degree is in Physics [&math]). Well, OK. Vladimir Arnold quotes Poincare as saying: "There is no Applied Mathematics, there are only applications of mathematics." Would that explain certain things? Andrzej Kozlowski
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- Re: Numerical accuracy/precision - this is a bug or a feature?
- From: Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu>
- Re: Numerical accuracy/precision - this is a bug or a feature?