From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107079,c7637cfdf68e766 X-Google-Attributes: gid107079,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,c7637cfdf68e766 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c7637cfdf68e766 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f8362,c7637cfdf68e766 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8362,public X-Google-Thread: 109d8a,c7637cfdf68e766 X-Google-Attributes: gid109d8a,public From: "W. Wesley Groleau x4923" Subject: Re: floating point comparison Date: 1997/08/08 Message-ID: <33EAA1A3.360B@pseserv3.fw.hac.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 262791140 Sender: usenet@most.fw.hac.com (News Administration) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: sparc02 References: <33DF6F43.6EEA4806@digicomp.com> <5rqehs$g1r$1@odin.cc.pdx.edu> <33E11967.4A30@nr.net> <33E214C3.311C@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> <33E61497.33E2@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> <33E8E3E1.17EA@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> <5sbgpk$q0n$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> Organization: Hughes Defense Communications Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,sci.math.num-analysis,comp.software-eng,comp.theory,sci.math Date: 1997-08-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > >the point is I don't quite believe the sky will fall if > >programmers don't have dual-degrees in Math and Comp. Sci. > >(And yes, I'm exaggerating for effect--or for frustration.) > > The sky won't fall, but planes might. > I still flinch when I remember a commercial statistics package > (not SAS) that happily `inverted' a singular matrix and kept going... Even if I thought (I don't) that only one percent of all floating point code needs numerical analysis, I'd still recommend that a numerical analyst at least be offered the chance to look at any safety-critical code AND its design and requirements documents. That's not the same as saying only numerical analysts should write code. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wes Groleau, Hughes Defense Communications, Fort Wayne, IN USA Senior Software Engineer - AFATDS Tool-smith Wanna-be Don't send advertisements to this domain unless asked! All disk space on fw.hac.com hosts belongs to either Hughes Defense Communications or the United States government. Using email to store YOUR advertising on them is trespassing! ----------------------------------------------------------------------