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Re: Swarm Futures re-cap
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gepr |
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Re: Swarm Futures re-cap |
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Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:05:33 -0700 |
Andy Cleary writes:
> >>I'd be interested to hear how other people deal with floating points.
>
> This is an entire academic discipline, basically. But for this kind of
> purpose, a little common sense is probably going to net you more bang for
> buck than learning an entire field... The comments below (about rounding
Absolutely!!! Validation, validation, validation... Or, at the very
least, eyeballs, eyeballs, eyballs. [grin]
Nothing can ever take the place of having multiple tables, graphs, and
other observables that you stare at for days on end. I once had a
mentor who plotted out everything he could and compared it to his
french curve.... He claimed that everything fit some part of a french
curve... and if it didn't, then there was a bug in your
program. [grin]
If there's a lesson here, at all, then it is "Know your data!"
Andy Cleary writes:
> >I think what you're dealing with is the conversion operation of the
> >print function.
>
> Well this is a much better answer than mine! ;-)
Only for constant usage in C. [grin] Your point applies to all of
modeling and simulation... rock beats scissors.
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