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Chemists bitten by Python scripts: How different OSes produced different results during test number-crunching

henklaak

Scientists are script kiddies.

I have the pleasure of being a SW dev amongst 50 physicists.

What they come up with is sometimes diabolical.

I've encountered a case where numerical analysis was so unstable, that it produced different result on different processors.

Inverting a matrix with condition number 1e60 doesn't seem to bother them at all.

H.

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