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10198231001 on Aug 27, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: An alarming number of scientific papers contain Ex...

If the programs contain errors, they are not useful. They appear to be useful to someone who just wants to see some activity instead of actual work.

coldtea on Aug 27, 2016 [–]

All programs contain errors, and almost all output of calculations is approximate.

The question is if for most of the use cases the margin of error is just fine...

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