On 3/26/10, Bert Gunter gunter.ber...@gene.com wrote:
represented) is important for numerical calculations, what is the smallest
number that anyone has actually seen describing physical phenomena in
science?
There was a recent article in The Economist (The force is weak with
this one, Apr
I spoke with a theoretical physicist and he said he encountered 10^-120.
Has something to do with attempts to describe/explain the universe...
Dimitri
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Steve Lianoglou
mailinglist.honey...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Barry Rowlingson
There is a story (apocryphal?) about Fred Hoyle, many years ago,
having come to the close of a public lecture about his work in
Cosmology (I seem to recall that it was to the British Astronomical
Association, a society of amateur astronomers, and therefore
knowledgeable). He was taking questions.
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Although machine precision (smallest numerical values that can be exactly
represented) is important for numerical calculations, what is the smallest
number that anyone has actually seen describing physical phenomena in
science? I've seen values of ca. 1e-20 or so
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Bert Gunter gunter.ber...@gene.com wrote:
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Although machine precision (smallest numerical values that can be exactly
represented) is important for numerical calculations, what is the smallest
number that anyone has actually seen
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Barry Rowlingson
b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote:
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Bert Gunter gunter.ber...@gene.com wrote:
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Although machine precision (smallest numerical values that can be exactly
represented) is important for
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