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What we supposed to be doing here? What's the task itself? –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] ([[User talk:Dkf|talk]]) 14:43, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
What we supposed to be doing here? What's the task itself? –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] ([[User talk:Dkf|talk]]) 14:43, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
: I've added a clear task here; simulate a 3 body gravitation system for 20 time-steps. It might not be perfect, but it's a ''definite'' thing for programmers to program, rather than just wallowing in mathematics. –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] ([[User talk:Dkf|talk]]) 07:14, 26 May 2014 (UTC)


== Caution ==
== Caution ==

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Cool Story, Bro!

What we supposed to be doing here? What's the task itself? –Donal Fellows (talk) 14:43, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

I've added a clear task here; simulate a 3 body gravitation system for 20 time-steps. It might not be perfect, but it's a definite thing for programmers to program, rather than just wallowing in mathematics. –Donal Fellows (talk) 07:14, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Caution

"Beware that because of the inherently chaotic nature of the n-body problem, two different but correct implementations may diverge after a sufficiently long sequence of steps." -- [1] --Rdm (talk) 00:33, 16 April 2014 (UTC)