10 Jun
2006
10 Jun
'06
7:54 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 06:19:58PM -0700, Geoffrey Irving wrote:
polynomial regression). All the nice Taylor series example seem unitless.
They have to be, don't they? Because you add up different powers of the argument. I took this once as a "heuristic" explanation to myself why the transcendental functions only work for dimensionless arguments. On the other hand, the square root can be approximated by a series as well, and this function does make sense with dimensional arguments. Regards -Gerhard -- Gerhard Wesp ZRH office voice: +41 (0)44 668 1878 ZRH office fax: +41 (0)44 200 1818 For the rest I claim that raw pointers must be abolished.