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   Krishna Myneni to albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl   
   Re: d/dx in forth   
   27 May 24 13:40:05   
   
   From: krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org   
      
   On 5/27/24 02:05, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > Krishna Myneni   wrote:   
   >> On 5/25/24 15:32, Ahmed wrote:   
   >>> Ah, I see.   
   >>> Thanks for the reply.   
   >>   
   >> My derivative routine is basic. For experimental data, it assumes you   
   >> have done whatever preprocessing on the raw data to provide a reasonably   
   >> smooth approximation of an analytic function to it.   
   >>   
   >> In measurements, one is rarely dealing with data which, in raw form, is   
   >> an analytic function.   
   >   
   > An analytic function is defined in an infinitly many immeasurable   
   > points where only Descartes and Cantor pretend to know the properties off.   
   > Seriously?   
   > At most an analytic function is a pretend thing, not a property of real   
   > data, not even "rarely".   
   >   
      
   Good grief. We shouldn't even be talking about numerical differentiation   
   then.   
      
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