[SystemSafety] Accuracy of COVID modeling code

Derek M Jones derek at knosof.co.uk
Wed May 6 18:58:43 CEST 2020


Peter,

>> I'm not aware of any evidence showing that any language is any better
>> than any other language with regard to reliable scientific computations.
> 
> 
> There is a large amount of work on the numerical accuracy of computations, going back many decades.

Indeed there is.  How does this relate to one language being any better
than another?

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