Monday, 9 May 2011

Accuracy


A funny account of accuracy from a Yale lecture about Planetary Orbits. It is aimed at non-scientists, explaining concepts. This little bit shows how deceiving numerical accuracy can be, and how it could be played with to impose even psychological influence on us. Perhaps what makes it even funnier is that when accuracy is mention we tend to forget how relative it is (best illustrated perhaps by 7/4=2 with significantly low accuracy)...

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