From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: yantar92@posteo.net, incal@dataswamp.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: as for Calc and the math library
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2024 21:53:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-0e3538dc-a6cc-4a4d-8e30-0b02033992e1-1723406031591@3c-app-mailcom-bs11> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86a5hij4fk.fsf@gnu.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2024 at 6:32 AM
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: yantar92@posteo.net, incal@dataswamp.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: as for Calc and the math library
>
> > From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
> > Cc: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>, incal@dataswamp.org,
> > emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2024 20:17:48 +0200
> >
> > For good mathematical libraries, you require a practicing applied
> > mathematician. A programmer is not enough.
>
> That's not true. A programmer experienced in numerical computations
> is more than enough, because the relevant algorithms are known and
> described in the literature, so there's no need to invent them.
A mathematician can usually do better than the standard techniques.
Some descriptions in the literature can be quite old and not so up
to date. Most of the original fortran routines was not done by programmers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-08-11 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-10 22:48 as for Calc and the math library Emanuel Berg
2024-08-11 4:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-11 16:45 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-11 16:55 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-11 17:05 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-11 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-11 18:17 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-11 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-11 19:53 ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2024-08-11 18:27 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-11 18:38 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-12 6:28 ` New Emacs features via Google Summer of Code (or other similar stipend schemes) (was: as for Calc and the math library) Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-12 11:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-12 12:10 ` New Emacs features via Google Summer of Code (or other similar stipend schemes) Joel Reicher
2024-08-12 18:59 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-12 22:28 ` Pedro
2024-08-14 10:07 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-15 11:44 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-12 19:17 ` New Emacs features via Google Summer of Code (or other similar stipend schemes) (was: as for Calc and the math library) Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-13 8:12 ` New Emacs features via Google Summer of Code (or other similar stipend schemes) Andrea Corallo
2024-08-18 11:48 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-18 12:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-18 12:52 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-18 13:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-18 13:56 ` RTF import/export emacs (was: New Emacs features via Google Summer of Code (or other similar stipend schemes)) Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-18 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-18 14:35 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-18 14:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-18 17:37 ` Jim Porter
2024-08-18 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-18 18:38 ` Jim Porter
2024-08-18 19:05 ` tomas
2024-08-13 11:02 ` New Emacs features via Google Summer of Code (or other similar stipend schemes) (was: as for Calc and the math library) Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-18 11:09 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-18 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-18 11:33 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-08-18 12:47 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-11 18:52 ` as for Calc and the math library Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-11 19:13 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-08-12 2:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-11 21:50 ` Christopher Dimech
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-08-12 5:30 arthur miller
2024-08-12 11:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-12 11:23 ` Nicolas Martyanoff
2024-08-12 11:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-12 12:11 ` Nicolas Martyanoff
2024-08-12 13:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-12 13:38 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-15 1:59 ` Richard Stallman
2024-08-15 3:06 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-15 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-15 13:28 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-15 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-13 7:16 ` Sv: " arthur miller
2024-08-13 12:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-13 13:10 ` Nicolas Martyanoff
2024-08-13 13:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-13 13:48 ` Nicolas Martyanoff
2024-08-13 21:43 ` Sv: " arthur miller
2024-08-14 5:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-14 8:45 ` Sv: " arthur miller
2024-08-14 9:56 ` Nicolas Martyanoff
2024-08-14 10:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-13 5:39 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-08-14 4:11 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-08-14 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-14 6:28 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-08-14 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-14 14:00 ` Suhail Singh
2024-08-14 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-14 15:08 ` Suhail Singh
2024-08-14 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-14 16:00 ` Suhail Singh
2024-08-14 16:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-14 20:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-15 5:00 ` Sv: " arthur miller
2024-08-15 7:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-15 20:09 ` Sv: " arthur miller
2024-08-16 5:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-18 16:38 ` Richard Stallman
2024-08-18 17:27 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-08-19 12:05 ` Sv: " arthur miller
2024-08-24 2:59 ` Richard Stallman
2024-08-24 2:59 ` Richard Stallman
2024-08-14 14:35 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-08-14 14:40 ` Nicolas Martyanoff
2024-08-14 14:47 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-08-14 14:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-14 5:29 ` Madhu
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