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Chris Bleakley, "Poems That Solve Puzzles: The History and Science of Algorithms" (Oxford UP, 2020)

New Books in Science

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Using Numerical Simulations for Forecasting the Weather

Numerical simulation of the weather forecast was first experimented on by lewis fry richardson in the 19 twenties. In a series of time steps, you calculate what the current conditions in each cell are going to be. And that calculation for a cell is dependent on what's happening in the cells around it and how much sunshine it's getting. That calculation evolves over a period of time.

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