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I am NOT commenting on their political views.
I am wondering how they thought they could get away with it because they cannot be identified in a mob.
There is absolutely no privacy when the Government has got billions of data points on everybody.
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Don't forget: not wearing masks ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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If only or or two of them were infected... 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nah, I've had it and I don't wish it on anyone.
Particularly those dumb enough to spread it to everyone around them ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Fair enough...
you are right, innocent people living near or in the same familie as them doesn't deserve it.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I heard someone declare: "Whatever you may think, I am not the wise President!"
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This thread has been reported 4 times for abusive/trolling, including my vote.
Let us hope it reaches 10 votes by tomorrow morning.
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You're stretching and want to muzzle.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Am I? Seems 9 others agreed with me.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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 but I wonder to what extent you believe it.
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I believe it only takes 5 votes to close a message; it's 10 to close an account. I was number 5, but I only reported it as "inappropriate".
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You forgot the ex-wives. Proving to be a formidable force indeed.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Finished converting the U.S. Naval Observatory Astrometry software from c and doubles to c# and decimal.
The only calculations the decimals couldn't handle were the speed of light in meters (overflow) and weak gravity calculation (divide by zero). In those cases, had to use intermediate doubles.
So now you know. 
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: In those cases, had to use intermediate doubles.
Not a compensating scale factor?
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Using published algorithms. Any fiddling on my part would come much later.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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"... and then some magic happens ..."
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How could going from decimal to double avoid a divide by zero?
I would have spent significant resources in discovering how that could be.
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The fraction in the decimal get truncated much earlier than a double. The double has less precision but much more range; it's the other way around with decimal; even though its wider byte-wise.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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If the divisor in theory, mathematically, "should have been" zero but isn't because of imprecision as floats are not 'real' numbers of unlimited precision, then the underlaying algorithm should indeed be closely inspected and investigated.
If the avoidance of a divide by zero exception is an artifact of limited precision, then I am getting close to call that a faulty implementation of the algorithm.
If, on the other hand, the divisor is from a mathematical point of view - really non-zero, but has been zeroed by some software or hardware algorithmic rules, then these rules should be reconsidered. It should never be tolerated that a small, non-zero divisor causes a divide-by-zero error. That is simply incorrect! If the divisor is "valid", yet so small that it should be equivalent to zero, then it must be handled as a value (like zero), not causing an exception. If it could be handled in float format, it should be handled similarlu in decimal format!
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They use it for space missions.
I'm telling you the mechanics; you want to analyze the writer's minds.
You're trying to argue there is "zero" gravity when in fact there is; "imprecision" helps maintain it.
A decimal can hold 28-29 digits; if gravity is less than that, it's still not "zero".
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
modified 12-Jan-21 23:22pm.
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If gravity can be zero, you must be prepared for it. If it is so small that it rounds off to zero, you must be prepared for it.
Note that IEEE 754 double precision has 52 mantissa bits - 53 if you count the hidden one. That is a precision of about 16 decimal digits. If you need even more, you have to go to 128 bit float, with about 33 decimal digits of precision.
If it is so small that it doesn't round off to zero in 128 bit float representation, but does round to zero in decimal representation, that is rather accidental. The next weaker level of gravitation might round off to zero even in 128 bit FP, and causing a similar divide by zero. I certainly think that any algorithm implementation where the divisor might either be "true" zero, or so low that it is rounded off to zero (whether in decimal digit #34 for 128 bit FP or in decimal digit #30 for decimal representation), but nevertheless tries to do the division without checking, is faulty. The decimal format as such is not to blame.
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In clinical chemistry it is common for the concentration of an analyte to be reported as "< 0.10 mg/dl" when that is the sensitivity of the test. Sensitivity of a test is defined by the random analytical variation of the test in the absence of ANY analyte, i.e. the "noise" in the measurement. cf. Gaussian standard error of estimate.
In this example, a "result" of 0.005 mg/dl is analytically indistinguishable from 0.00 mg/dl.
The same issues of analytical precision apply to the extremes of floating point calculation.
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The problem in this case isn't an avoidance of a divide by zero, it's that the value is so close to zero that system.decimal can't handle the number and truncates it to zero. The wider dynamic range of system.double can handle it.
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