Quote: intermittent machine errors are exasperating; run tests, check identities, make duplicate runs

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Measures against intermittent [machine] error. This is one … . [p. 80] (a) Before using the machine a … (b) In any calculation, identities should be looked … (c) It is as well to try to … [that the probability of error is small] … If the calculation is then repeated and the … occasion. (d) … [or] divide the working space of the machine … The computation is all done in A, and … [Run the burst computation on A; rerun the computation after swapping A and B; if the results differ, start over again with C].   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: use burst computations to workaround intermittent machine errors; if both burst runs differ, rerun using saved state

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