Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marko Rauhamaa Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: OT Re: Math-embarrassment results in CS [was: Should non-security 2.7 bugs be fixed?] Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:29:28 +0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: <878ua636mf.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> References: <7083e494-6192-4acb-aea9-216d858171bc@googlegroups.com> <55ab2b57$0$1664$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <76252f32-64e9-405b-84a2-996200a6fa6f@googlegroups.com> <87twsxj2ot.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <55ae2171$0$1646$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <890a3d61-2824-48e3-be19-56d0ff63d6d9@googlegroups.com> <55afcbbf$0$1648$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <574fa1a7-0d40-405f-ada6-183f2f50cc82@googlegroups.com> <55b07e87$0$1587$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <87egjy380w.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="b7cb1518d23ec19d482dcc9c31d30fdd"; logging-data="28878"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19cujVzTdEfStorLHIQqT5y" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3p7yLLgfC1UFcT4LcP7iVy/ndtA= sha1:3Ex2xrJa4U2a4401NiwA3wBa0ss= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:94466 Chris Angelico : > Fortunately, we don't need to completely understand it. New Horizons > reached Pluto right on time after a decade of flight that involved > taking a left turn at Jupiter... we can predict exactly what angle to > fire the rockets at in order to get where we want to go, even without > knowing how that gravity yank works. > > Practicality beats purity? Engineer! At the time I was in college I heard topology was very fashionable among mathematicians. That was because it was one of the last remaining research topics that didn't yet have an application. Marko