[Ian} Assuming you were talking chaotic patterns in repeated calculations ?
Interesting, it's an accurate metaphor in the sense that the rounding limits - in a calculating machine - are properties of the machine that manifest themselves in the patterns. ie the patterns are part of physical laws, but they are inherent in the process of interaction, calculation upon calculation, rather than the static machine. The attractors (patterns) exist but they exist in a "strange" dynamic space. David's "Why" is of course a mixed question of explanation and/or purpose ... ? [Case] The problem with rounding error is much deeper than this I fear. The Platonic Ideal was the product of the idealized world created by Greek mathematics. Points, lines and planes do not exist and the real world. Perfectly defined length and breadth do not exist in the real world. Nothing in reality is exactly one meter in length. It was this "lack of perfection" or slop in the real world that made the ideal world seem perfect and the real world ugly. ---------------------------------------------------- > Case/Ron > > The real mystery is why are there patterns and repeats? > > David M > > David, > My hunch is the manifestation of static quality. > The value mechanism called quality is the real mystery to me > Did you catch any of the 2+2=5 rounding error posts > That Case and I kicked around? I feel the rounding > Limit in mathmatics is a perfect example and a relaivly > Accurate metaphor for this phenomena. > -Ron moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
