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Re:Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations by tanderson92 on Friday December 22, 2017 @03:36AM (#15986070)
Convergence, or at least consistency and order, of Runge-Kutta methods is shown via Taylor series, so I don't see the problem or why the GP is only "Almost" correct.
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Re:Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations by thethirdone on Friday December 22, 2017 @03:48AM (#15986124)
The Runge-Kutta methods are not a Taylor series though. So "almost" is apt.
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Re:Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations by labster on Friday December 22, 2017 @05:14PM (#15991350)
Geez guys, I chose a term that I thought most people would be more likely to understand. I realize that some of us have worked a lot more on numerical methods, but other hackers never made it past Calculus 2.
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Re:Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations by thethirdone on Friday December 22, 2017 @10:49PM (#15992797)
I wouldn't have corrected you. I think your comment was fine.

> I realize that some of us have worked a lot more on numerical methods, but other hackers never made it past Calculus 2.

While that didn't occur to me, I do appreciate trying to keep things accessible.

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Re:Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations by m_mueller on Friday December 22, 2017 @08:41PM (#15992410)
Did you take offense from my comment? All I wanted is to set people on the right track if they want to find more information about how NWP is implemented.
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