On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 12:55 PM Hope Rouselle <hrouse...@jevedi.com> wrote: > > Julio Di Egidio <ju...@diegidio.name> writes: > > > On Thursday, 2 September 2021 at 16:51:24 UTC+2, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: > >> Am 02.09.21 um 16:49 schrieb Julio Di Egidio: > >> > On Thursday, 2 September 2021 at 16:41:38 UTC+2, Peter Pearson wrote: > >> >> On Thu, 02 Sep 2021 10:51:03 -0300, Hope Rouselle wrote: > >> > > >> >>> 39.60000000000001 > >> >> > >> >> Welcome to the exciting world of roundoff error: > >> > > >> > Welcome to the exiting world of Usenet. > >> > > >> > *Plonk* > >> > >> Pretty harsh, isn't it? He gave a concise example of the same inaccuracy > >> right afterwards. > > > > And I thought you were not seeing my posts... > > > > Given that I have already given a full explanation, you guys, that you > > realise it or not, are simply adding noise for the usual pub-level > > discussion I must most charitably guess. > > > > Anyway, just my opinion. (EOD.) > > Which is certainly appreciated --- as a rule. Pub-level noise is pretty > much unavoidable in investigation, education. Being wrong is, too, > unavoidable in investigation, education. There is a point we eventually > publish at the most respected journals, but that's a whole other > interval of the time-line. IOW, chill out! :-D (Give us a C-k and meet > us up in the next thread. Oh, my, you're not a Gnus user: you are a > G2/1.0 user. That's pretty scary.) >
I'm not a fan of the noise level in a pub, but I have absolutely no problem with arguing these points out. And everyone (mostly) in this thread is being respectful. I don't mind when someone else is wrong, especially since - a lot of the time - I'm wrong too (or maybe I'm the only one who's wrong). ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list