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Re:Why scientists are turning to Rust by proverbialbunny on Friday December 04, 2020 @05:22PM (#25309042)
>I normally think of scientific programming as something involving lots of large matrices, but that isn't the case for everything.

It typically is. If you have the right libraries, it's only a few lines of code to do a lot of math. C = A + B could be matrix math, not just single variables being added.

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Re:Why scientists are turning to Rust by 7thaccount on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @11:50AM (#25360618)
In my experience yes, but I started thinking about stuff like the human genome project which was mostly done with Perl scripts and BioPerl in the year 2000 iirc. I assume that is mostly just regex work dealing with very large strings. Is it scientific computing? Yes, just not as how I typically view scientific computing.
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