Prashant Saini

Unreachable branches and double-counted samples: two silent failure modes in threshold scattering and periodic-orbit spectra

Two arithmetic mistakes are reported that share an uncomfortable property: neither raises an exception, produces a NaN, nor returns an implausible number. Each returns a finite, smooth, plausible value of roughly the right size, and each survives the checks a careful person is mo...

Unreachable branches and double-counted samples: two silent failure modes in threshold scattering and periodic-orbit spectra

Two arithmetic mistakes are reported that share an uncomfortable property: neither raises an exception, produces a NaN, nor returns an implausible number. Each returns a finite, smooth, plausible value of roughly the right size, and each survives the checks a careful person is mo...

Unreachable branches and double-counted samples: two silent failure modes in threshold scattering and periodic-orbit spectra

Two arithmetic mistakes are reported that share an uncomfortable property: neither raises an exception, produces a NaN, nor returns an implausible number. Each returns a finite, smooth, plausible value of roughly the right size, and each survives the checks a careful person is mo...