On Oct 19, 8:59 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek- central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > 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.
Go look up deterministic in Wikipedia. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
