From: lm at mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [COFF] Fwd: Old and Tradition was [TUHS] V9 shell
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 15:05:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200212230542.GR852@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9f1f6e0a-13ee-0846-e290-ec9871a3f542@technologists.com>
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 04:45:54PM -0600, Charles H Sauer wrote:
> If I recall correctly:
> - all doctoral candidates ended up taking two semesters of numerical
> analysis. I still have two volume n.a. text in the attic (orange, but not
> "burnt orange", IIRC).
> - numerical analysis was covered on the doctoral qualifying exam.
Pretty sure Madison required that stuff for Masters degrees. Or maybe
undergrad, I feel like I took that stuff pretty early on.
I'm very systems oriented so I can't imagine I would have taking that
willingly. I hate the whole idea of floating point, just seems so
error prone.
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2020-02-11 18:41 [COFF] " clemc
[not found] ` <CAP2nic2C4-m_Epcx7rbW2ssbS850ZFiLKiL+hg1Wxbcwoaa1vQ@mail.gmail.com>
2020-02-12 0:57 ` [COFF] Fwd: " athornton
2020-02-12 1:58 ` clemc
2020-02-12 3:01 ` lm
2020-02-12 18:12 ` clemc
2020-02-12 21:55 ` cym224
2020-02-12 22:11 ` imp
2020-02-12 22:45 ` sauer
2020-02-12 23:05 ` lm [this message]
2020-02-12 23:54 ` [COFF] floating point (Re: " bakul
2020-02-12 23:56 ` bakul
2020-02-13 1:21 ` toby
2020-02-13 6:57 ` [COFF] Fwd: " peter
2020-02-16 21:47 ` wobblygong
2020-02-16 22:10 ` clemc
2020-02-16 22:45 ` krewat
2020-02-16 23:50 ` bakul
2020-02-18 0:17 ` dave
2020-02-18 12:48 ` jpl.jpl
2020-02-24 9:40 ` ik
2020-02-24 15:19 ` lm
[not found] ` <CAP2nic0fK+=eh=5MuY4BJH6zx4tCRMWcazmm1khYMzNmEdf8ug@mail.gmail.com>
2020-02-24 16:15 ` [COFF] [TUHS] Fwd: Old and Tradition was " clemc
2020-02-24 16:19 ` clemc
2020-02-24 16:27 ` [COFF] Fwd: Old and Tradition was [TUHS] " clemc
2020-02-12 16:28 jnc
2020-02-12 18:13 ` clemc
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