Michel Lavaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] | > | This trend is especially common among experimental scientists, for two reasons | > | : first, they have lot of money so they can buy very expensive software, and | > | second, there is an inherent uncertainty in experimental results, so they | > | translate their tolerance to errors in experimental results toward tolerance | > | to possible errors in commercial software, without realizing (or wanting to | > | realize) that errors in experiment and software are of a complete different | > | nature : error in an experimental measure is unavoidable and inherent to | > | experimental work, while error in a software is completely avoidable since it | > | is pure mathematics, expressed in a computer language instead of plain | > | English. | > | > That may be the case. In the interest of rigor and openness as you | > promote, do you have data for that scenario we could all check so that | > it does not appear to be a gratuitous anecdote? | > | > | Once again, I'm not sure I understand the question : which data would | you like that "all could check" ? # [...] so they translate their tolerance to errors in experimental # results toward tolerance to possible errors in commercial software -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
