Re: Numerical accuracy/precision - this is a bug or a feature?
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- Subject: [mg120319] Re: Numerical accuracy/precision - this is a bug or a feature?
- From: Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:54:16 -0400 (EDT)
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On 7/18/2011 3:17 AM, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote: > 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 > I can't think of one thing that it might explain. Maybe it sounds better in the original French?
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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?