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I’m telling you you have no idea how anything works or why design choices are made in fields where you’re holding forth with an authority inversely proportional
by hnews_account_1 4y ago
I’m telling you you have no idea how anything works or why design choices are made in fields where you’re holding forth with an authority inversely proportional to your ignorance. Your very basic and ignorant idea of mathematics or modern finance isn’t worth my time. Especially if you think newton raphson should be any sort of standard for finding numerical roots in 2022. I shudder to think of how you’d approach a seemingly irrational exponent or something. Or how you’d incorporate something as simple as e^x. Would you use a rainbow table? The possibilities for abuse are truly endless.
- jqpabc123 4y agoEspecially if you think newton raphson should be any sort of standard for finding numerical roots in 2022. Nice straw man. I never proposed a standard --- only that it is possible. But if you look too closely at whatever method you are using now --- you will likely find an algorithm that you will scoff at. There are only a handful of options and "magic" isn't one of them. *Anything* a computer does is ultimately reduced down to the most basic mathematical functions using some sort of algorithm. The fact that you don't know it or see it doesn't mean it's not there.
- hnews_account_1 4y agoI mean this is now an absurd conversation. You’re claiming you’ll break down all mathematical functions and convert them to work exclusively with integers instead of real numbers. So you’re proposing writing an entirely new mathematical standard and acting as though it can be achieved without any investment of time and effort because you’re able to demonstrate some simple calculation that has been done for several centuries by hand. I’m not even sure how I’m still conversing on these absurdities despite noting them.