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Re: Feedback from JRES in Dijon


From: zimoun
Subject: Re: Feedback from JRES in Dijon
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 16:47:19 +0100

On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 15:43, Julien Lepiller <address@hidden> wrote:

> So they are doing physical simulation (fluid dynamics), so they don't (can't) 
> get the same result when running the same experiment twice. They wart 
> replicability, that is, even if the results are different, they are close 
> enough to each other that you have to draw the same scientific conclusion, 
> independent of your compiler or other package inputs.

It is question for the Philosophy of Science. What is the status of error? ;-)

In the area of controlling the error, Interval Arithmetic [1] gives
interesting results.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_arithmetic


All the best,
simon



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