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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 20:20:55 +1200
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Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 5/11/2015 8:42 PM, zipher wrote:
>> Huh?  VPython successfully models particle motion simulation with 
>> discrete events.

That's a discrete approximation to a continuous process.
The term "discrete event simulation" is usually used to
mean modelling a process that is inherently discrete,
e.g. sending data packets over a network.

-- 
Greg