[Oren Tirosh] > ... > I was thinking more of estimates based on the assumption that errors are > normally distributed and track standard deviation. SD grows more slowly > (i.e. realistically) than true error bounds. Have you ever tried > measuring noise or bit error rates in a simulation that runs thousands > of times slower than real time? (change a paremeter, rinse, repeat). > Something that quickly estimates the error energy could be useful. If you run Emacs, get Dave Gillespie's woefully underappreciated calc-mode and look up "error forms". He did a pretty thorough implementation of the concept, including for transcendentals and complex numbers. > I guess that "everything is gaussian" is an approximation only an > engineer could love and makes mathematicians shake their heads > in disgust :-) Pure mathematicians, yes; applied mathematicians would chuckle at how cautious you are <wink>.
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