Re: [FRIAM] Comparing negative numbers

2024-04-13 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Hi, everybody (anybody), Many thanks to Russ, Frank, Stephen, and Steve S and others who got in touch with me off line. I try not to bother you guys unless I am pretty desperate, so I guess I was pretty desperate. A little history: I have been a weather-nerd ever since my early teens

Re: [FRIAM] Comparing negative numbers

2024-04-12 Thread glen
It seems like the relative stability argues for a translation from Ess space to the origin (0). So regardless of sign, you want to translate from absolute space (step number) to Ess space, which, in some cases, results in Russ' math. But would extend to negative steps as well. On April 12,

Re: [FRIAM] Comparing negative numbers

2024-04-12 Thread Steve Smith
Nick - If your model is that the the instability of the cat-cat-food situation is positively (and nominally linearly) correlated with the distance between them (more likely inversely, but that is a separate issue) then the absolute value is a very reasonable way of removing any implied

Re: [FRIAM] Comparing negative numbers

2024-04-12 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 12:00:06PM -0600, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > > My Dear Phellow Phriammers,  > > Over the years I have asked you some doozies.  Still, I am pretty sure this > the > stupidest question I have ever asked this forum, so I am at your mercy. > > I am in one of those

[FRIAM] Comparing negative numbers

2024-04-12 Thread Nicholas Thompson
My Dear Phellow Phriammers, Over the years I have asked you some doozies. Still, I am pretty sure this the stupidest question I have ever asked this forum, so I am at your mercy. I am in one of those situations where language and mathematics are rubbing together and driving crazy. Let say that