From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-16 02:21:07
Damien Fisher wrote:
> It really seems to me that you are objecting to a numerical model
> which has worked well for decades in numerous domains and into which
> much effort has been expended.
Hmmm - If I remember correctly from loooong ago when I used FORTRAN
the issue never came up as things like divide by 0, overflow etc always
crashed the program. I don't remember any notion that these were
legitimate operations on which further computation could be performed.
Robert Ramey