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Re:Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson by bradleyjg on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @01:09PM (#18808427)
I had a similar thing happen in high school physics. We were were suppose to figure out where and when a projectile was going to land. The only problem was that it was never going to land—-the initial velocity was too high.

In retrospect I think it was a great lesson for my future career as a data engineer. Doesn’t matter what the source is, any datum can be just plain wrong.

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Re:Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson by saagarjha on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @01:35PM (#18808679)
> The only problem was that it was never going to land—-the initial velocity was too high.

As in, it escaped the gravitational field?

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Re:Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson by bradleyjg on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @02:12PM (#18809028)
Yep.
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