Re: Swarm Futures re-cap

[gepr]

Andy Cleary writes:
 > >>I'd be interested to hear how other people deal with floating points.
 > 
 > This is an entire academic discipline, basically. But for this kind of 
 > purpose, a little common sense is probably going to net you more bang for 
 > buck than learning an entire field... The comments below (about rounding 

Absolutely!!!  Validation, validation, validation... Or, at the very
least, eyeballs, eyeballs, eyballs. [grin]

Nothing can ever take the place of having multiple tables, graphs, and
other observables that you stare at for days on end.  I once had a
mentor who plotted out everything he could and compared it to his
french curve.... He claimed that everything fit some part of a french
curve... and if it didn't, then there was a bug in your
program. [grin]

If there's a lesson here, at all, then it is "Know your data!"

Andy Cleary writes:
 > >I think what you're dealing with is the conversion operation of the
 > >print function.
 > 
 > Well this is a much better answer than mine! ;-)

Only for constant usage in C. [grin]  Your point applies to all of
modeling and simulation... rock beats scissors.

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