Holy commandments for the computer analyst

This post is for the geeks out there. It is something I came across in a delightful book on computational methods (refer citation at bottom of post). I thought that it deserves to be shared with the geeky numerical-analyst community.

(For non-analysts who want to read the post and join the fun anyway, here's the context: The authors are trying to explain that numerical results from computer simulations should not be considered valid and correct unless and until they are carefully thought out beforehand AND matched with rough sums AND validated experimentally).

Presenting…

Confrontations

Citation to the source: (a brilliant book incidentally)

Numerical Methods in Engineering and Applied Sciences – Numbers are fun 

by - B. M. Irons and N. G. Shrive.

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