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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109d8a,c7637cfdf68e766 X-Google-Attributes: gid109d8a,public X-Google-Thread: f8362,c7637cfdf68e766 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8362,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c7637cfdf68e766 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,c7637cfdf68e766 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 107079,c7637cfdf68e766 X-Google-Attributes: gid107079,public From: Peter Shenkin Subject: Re: floating point comparison Date: 1997/08/08 Message-ID: <33EB29EE.446B@still3.chem.columbia.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 262861507 Distribution: inet 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> <33E6D359.3EF4@imbi.uni-freiburg.de> <33E74A62.53E2@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> <33EA0049.2CDB@gsg.eds.com> Organization: MacroModel Development Group, Columbia University 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: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote: > > Robert Dewar wrote: > > > > The idea that having a math degree qualifies someone as a numerical > > analyst, let alone a competent one, is about on the same level as > > assuming anyone with a degree in computer science is an expert in > > logic programming systems (or choose any other specialty here). Or assuming that anyone with a degree in English knows how to read and write.... :-) -P. -- "Making Barbie smart is like making GI Joe a conscientious objector" M.Dowd * Peter S. Shenkin; Chemistry, Columbia U.; 3000 Broadway, Mail Code 3153 * ** NY, NY 10027; shenkin@columbia.edu; (212)854-5143; FAX: 678-9039 *** *MacroModel WWW page: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/mmod/mmod.html *