Distributed RVS, Darcs, tech love

[Daniel Pitts]

On Oct 20, 2:04 pm, llothar <llot... at web.de> wrote:
> > I love math. I respect Math. I'm nothing but a menial servant to
> > Mathematics.
>
> Programming and use cases are not maths. Many mathematics are
> the worst programmers i've seen because they want to solve things and
> much more often you just need heuristics. Once they are into exact
> world they loose there capability to see the factor of relevance in
> algorithms.
>
> And they almost never match the mental model that the average
> user has about a problem.

I read somewhere that for large primes, using Fermat's Little Theorem
test is *good enough* for engineers because the chances of it being
wrong are less likely than a cosmic particle hitting your CPU at the
exact instant to cause a failure of the same sort.  This is the
primary difference between engineers and mathematicians.