On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 15:43, Julien Lepiller <jul...@lepiller.eu> wrote:
> So they are doing physical simulation (fluid dynamics), so they don't (can't) > get the same result when running the same experiment twice. They wart > replicability, that is, even if the results are different, they are close > enough to each other that you have to draw the same scientific conclusion, > independent of your compiler or other package inputs. It is question for the Philosophy of Science. What is the status of error? ;-) In the area of controlling the error, Interval Arithmetic [1] gives interesting results. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_arithmetic All the best, simon