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To: FreedomPoster

As long as you never got into the cheating of numerical approximation, you’re fine....


36 posted on 09/07/2016 1:18:40 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: Paladin2

Undergraduate and graduate numerical methods. There are a lot of diff-e-qs that don’t have definite solutions, the only way to get to a solution is via numerical approximations. Fortunately PCs came out right as I was graduating undergrad, so I was able to do my graduate numerical methods in interpreted BASIC on an IBM-PC in my apartment, instead of going down to the computer center to use the terminals into the mainframe. Many of the solutions would take hours to converge to a solution on my PC, but that was OK, I just let it run overnight.

So I was PC when PC was still cool!


39 posted on 09/07/2016 1:35:05 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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