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On Fri, 10 Jul 1998 07:13:14 -0500, Hackman <@jump.nospam.net> wrote:
>Joel Garry wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, 09 Jul 1998 08:29:40 -0500, Hackman <@jump.nospam.net> wrote:
>> >E. Faubion wrote:
>> >>
>> >> eta@my-dejanews.com (Eric Anderson) wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >>The ratio of the actual recorded rate (as in a test)
>> >>
>> >> >The rate of what?
>> >>
>> >> Never mind.  It's obviously beyond you.
>> >>
>> >> >No, but you're dealing with someone with a solid grounding in basic (and even
>> >> >some quantum) physics, and I recognize that this is something you're missing.
>> >> >Pretty odd considering your claim to "expertise" in this area.
>> >>
>> >> In 1992 I wrote a computer program for accident investigators and the
>> >> last update was last year.  Seems odd I could write something like
>> >> that and have it reviewed in a national police magazine if I didn't
>> >> have at least some understanding of the subject.  Perhaps I should
>> >> have consulted you first?  We could have marketed it as a game. :=]
>> >>
>> >
>> >well, outside of your programing ability (yeah right), his math and
>> >physics was correct, your was not...plain and simple....your just not
>> >hoinest enough to say that you made a mistake.  Pity.  I figured one day
>> >you would grow up and become a man and admit when your wrong Earl, but I
>> >guess not....
>> 
>> Wish I could remember the specfics, but weren't there inherent rounding
>> errors in GWBASIC?  I know I found some in Basic+ in 1980, 'cause I had
>> to justify $50,000 when I wrote a program that avoided the error, and think I
>> later found some in GWBASIC, but it was too long ago to remember such details.
>> 
>
>GWBASIC uses Microsoft storage for doubles and longs, and not IEEE and
>yes, there is some GREAT rounding errors.
>They *can* be programed around, but by the choice of language used I can
>assure you that Earl didn't do this....

Well, I know I used to use packages on real computers that specifically
dealt with this, so maybe Earl dealt with it.  Oh wait, he didn't, he just
threw it out when he realized the problems.  Now those C libraries...

>
>
>> Of course, with C, anything can happen, eh?  I shudder to think what an
>> unaudited physics program written by an amateur with no proper QA or
>> "correct" (in the Orr sense) design in a language designed for writing
>> operating systems rather than applications could have wrong.  And that
>> user guide sure didn't make me feel warm and fuzzy about it, either.
>> 
>
>hahaha 8;)  I still would love to see the source...
>
>I wonder if Earl knows just what goes into the production of software ?

Well, obviously he thinks he does.  I know some companies that are still
running into rounding problems on Alpha's given certain highly inflated
asian currencies that need more than so many bits of precision... let's
hope they start sending back all those Ferraris and such they acquired before
the crisis... :)

jg
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