16 May
2006
16 May
'06
6:21 a.m.
Damien Fisher wrote:
It really seems to me that you are objecting to a numerical model which has worked well for decades in numerous domains and into which much effort has been expended.
Hmmm - If I remember correctly from loooong ago when I used FORTRAN the issue never came up as things like divide by 0, overflow etc always crashed the program. I don't remember any notion that these were legitimate operations on which further computation could be performed. Robert Ramey