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Comment Re:THESE reactors should't have had a problem (Score 1) 560

I was really imagining the spent fuel rod pool in the same building, just down a long way. That way you could still use the same crane mechanism to move it (presumably a gantry crane), but you would just need a lot more cable.

Issues of accurately aligning the longer pendulum into the pool are left as an exercise to for the designer.

Comment Re:Do you want computer science, or engineering? (Score 1) 583

I argue that testing, process, management and analysis all require statistics. In practice this is done using continuous functions even when the probability distribution is discrete (e.g. the central limit theorem.)

I agree with you there. I had thought about stats, but hadn't considered the continuous functions aspect.

Implementation requires knowledge of first-order logic, which is mathematics.

I'd be surprised if this is the case. Can you give an example that shows why it is necessary?

Design and requirements-gathering require knowledge of the problem domain, which I hope will involve algorithmics and mathematics. If they truly don't, I feel deeply sorry for any developer working on the project.

I'm all for discrete maths, which most algorithms are (graph searching etc). I think that continuous maths (with the exception above) are limited in their usefulness for most domains.

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