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Re:Floating point error is the least of my worries (2011) by deadcell on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @06:10PM (#16433794)
OP has never played KSP - had the kraken rip whole colony ships apart because of oscillatory wobbles coming in and out of physics modes :(
Re:Floating point error is the least of my worries (2011) by conistonwater on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @07:47PM (#16434284)
As far as I can tell, that supports, rather than contradicts, the post's point about modelling, fp, and approximation errors. It's a little too easy to ascribe KSP's bugs to floating-point errors, its physics engine just isn't trustworthy enough. How do you really know that the oscillations are not just due to it solving a stiff system of ODEs with explicit Euler, or something perfectly predictable like that?
Re:Floating point error is the least of my worries (2011) by Piskvorrr on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @06:14PM (#16433818)
Thus the simulation resembles reality, where such oscillations arise out of natural imperfections ;)