In message <eeb52362-1308-4c3f-85a2-7493f796a...@g18g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>, Carl Banks wrote:
> On Oct 18, 4:15 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> > wrote: > >> In message >> <42d82f8a-4ee6-44a7-914d-86dfc21f1...@a36g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>, >> Fuzzyman wrote: >> >>> Allowing calculations to complete even in the presence of cycles can be >>> very useful. >> >> But then the answer is no longer completely deterministic. > > Yes it is ... No, because it will change depending on the iteration number. And if the computation doesn’t converge, this is a recipe for oscillations, including chaotic ones. Hmmm, I wonder how much of Wall Street’s crash-proneness can be blamed on dependency cycles in damned Excel spreadsheets... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
