Re: Floating Point Test Suite

From	Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain>
Newsgroups	sci.physics
Subject	Re: Floating Point Test Suite
Date	2015-11-15 21:01 +0000
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On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 23:42:05 -0800, Timo wrote:

> 
> Numerical methods are still dominated by the same old tripod: numerical calculus,
> linear algebra, and Monte Carlo. 
>

And mathematics still continues to be hailed as "the queen of the sciences"
when in reality it is a crock of impotence and ineffectiveness.

To compute an integral I can cut out with scissors a drawing of the region
in question and weigh it a scale thereby arriving at an answer faster than
the world's greatest supercomputer.

There have been some theoretical breakthroughs over the past hundred
years that have revolutionized some methods, but off the top of my
head I can't recall what they were.  But progress will always remain
very slow in a field that is innately crippled to begin with.

Analog computers, if perfected, could perhaps make the paper-scissors
method a standard.

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Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 18:01 +0000
  Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 18:09 +0000
  Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 19:58 +0000
    Re: Floating Point Test Suite Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2015-11-11 15:19 -0500
      Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 20:28 +0000
      Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 20:37 +0000
        Re: Floating Point Test Suite Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2015-11-11 16:33 -0500
      Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 21:13 +0000
        Re: Floating Point Test Suite Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-11 15:16 -0600
          Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 21:42 +0000
          Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 21:54 +0000
            Re: Floating Point Test Suite Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-11 16:43 -0600
              Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 23:15 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-11 17:34 -0600
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-11 17:37 -0600
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 23:47 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-11-12 07:56 -0500
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-12 19:07 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 19:57 -0600
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-12 00:45 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-12 04:55 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 09:26 -0600
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-12 20:56 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 20:00 -0600
            Re: Floating Point Test Suite Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-11 16:48 -0600
              Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 23:08 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-11 17:12 -0600
            Re: Floating Point Test Suite Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-11 17:06 -0600
            Re: Floating Point Test Suite dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-11-12 07:35 -0500
              Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-12 19:29 +0000
    Re: Floating Point Test Suite Monkey Man <manm0nk3y@gmail.com> - 2015-11-11 21:33 -0600
      Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-12 04:47 +0000
        Re: Floating Point Test Suite Monkey Man <manm0nk3y@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 20:19 -0600
          Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 03:28 +0000
            Re: Floating Point Test Suite Big Fish in a Small Crotch <bigfishinasmallcrotch@myself.com> - 2015-11-12 22:40 -0500
              Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 03:59 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 00:16 -0500
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-11-13 15:00 -0700
            Re: Floating Point Test Suite Monkey Man <manm0nk3y@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 01:40 -0600
              Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 08:22 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 12:41 -0500
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 19:16 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Apollyon <adravirgo@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 13:04 -0800
              Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-14 22:58 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Big Fish in a Small Crotch <bigfishinasmallcrotch@myself.com> - 2015-11-14 18:08 -0500
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-14 23:39 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Timo <timo@physics.uq.edu.au> - 2015-11-14 18:26 -0800
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-15 07:07 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Timo <timo@physics.uq.edu.au> - 2015-11-14 23:42 -0800
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 09:49 +0100
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-15 21:01 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-15 21:33 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Timo <timo@physics.uq.edu.au> - 2015-11-15 14:24 -0800
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-15 22:55 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-15 22:25 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Timo <timo@physics.uq.edu.au> - 2015-11-15 14:59 -0800
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 09:41 +0100
      Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-12 06:24 +0000
        Re: Floating Point Test Suite Monkey Man <manm0nk3y@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 20:29 -0600
          Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 03:49 +0000
            Re: Floating Point Test Suite Monkey Man <manm0nk3y@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 22:49 -0600
              Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 04:59 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Monkey Man <manm0nk3y@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 01:56 -0600
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 08:28 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Monkey Man <manm0nk3y@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 22:24 -0600
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-14 04:45 +0000
          Re: June 1986 ? ! Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 06:19 +0000
            Re: June 1986 ? ! GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-11-13 15:03 -0700
      Re: MonkeyMan is FabianRussell. Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-12 19:44 +0000
    Re: Floating Point Test Suite Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2015-11-13 01:59 -0500
      Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 07:43 +0000
        Re: Floating Point Test Suite Timo <timo@physics.uq.edu.au> - 2015-11-13 15:11 -0800
          Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-14 00:00 +0000
            Re: Floating Point Test Suite Timo <timo@physics.uq.edu.au> - 2015-11-13 16:31 -0800
              Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-14 02:26 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-14 03:52 +0000
              Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-14 02:46 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Timo <timo@physics.uq.edu.au> - 2015-11-13 19:26 -0800
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-14 02:11 -0500
              Re: Floating Point Test Suite noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-11-14 15:20 -0800
            Re: Floating Point Test Suite jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-14 00:47 +0000
  Re: Floating Point Test Suite Big Fish in a Small Crotch <bigfishinasmallcrotch@myself.com> - 2015-11-11 15:28 -0500

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