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Re: Time and Longitude by Jupiter's moons
From: David C
Date: 2024 Dec 10, 12:09 -0800
From: David C
Date: 2024 Dec 10, 12:09 -0800
Frank wrote
Yet every time I click on that app on the S&T website (linked above) or any of numerous other tools, they calculate it fresh for next month as if the running code is doing something new, useful, important... There's a bit of "lunacy" in this (intentional pun). We know how to code, but we cannot stop.
Is there a reference set of mathematical libraries that can be relied on to be correct? Libraries that are maintained by experts who stand by the accuracy of their data. If every programming language has a mathermatical library how do we know which one(s) to use in a mission critical application?
David C
