AW: Harmonix content formula

[Paul Perry]

At 01:34 PM 9/06/99 +0200, Paul van Nugteren wrote:
>Ethan Duni wrote:
>> -hmm, couldn't we even argue that numerical solutions are always, one some
>> level, "wrong", because they necessarily involve approximations and, being
>> done in computers, finite-resolution numbers? i wonder how much progress has
>> been made in getting computers to perform symbolic (and hence truly
>> "correct") operations on the level of fourier transforms.. be interesting..
>
>Analogue computers anyone?

well.. analog computers have their own inaccuracies of course.. being a Devils'
Advocate, remember you can keep making the numerical solutions arbitrarily 
accurate. The reason for using an analog computer is to avoid having to do 
stuff like Fourier analysis and boundary valued differential equations.

Incidentally, it's interesting to see the career of someone like Kaplus of 
'plucked string simulation' fame, from his early analog compouter days to 
the world of 01010101.