[COFF] Fwd: Old and Tradition was [TUHS] V9 shell

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Thu Feb 13 09:05:42 AEST 2020


On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 04:45:54PM -0600, Charles H Sauer wrote:
> If I recall correctly:
> - all doctoral candidates ended up taking two semesters of numerical
> analysis. I still have two volume n.a. text in the attic (orange, but not
> "burnt orange", IIRC).
> - numerical analysis was covered on the doctoral qualifying exam.

Pretty sure Madison required that stuff for Masters degrees.  Or maybe
undergrad, I feel like I took that stuff pretty early on.

I'm very systems oriented so I can't imagine I would have taking that 
willingly.  I hate the whole idea of floating point, just seems so 
error prone.  


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