I've been having a look at LF Richardson's book

'Weather Prediction by Numerical Process'

It was published in 1922. The following is a link to the first part of
the Preface to the book. It really is worth a read because it is all so
true.


https://db.tt/EPQBEWuhrO


Richardson is considered to be the 'Father' of Numerical Weather
Prediction. He was a man with a great vision of what might be achieved
if only he had the tools which, of course, in 1922 he did not. He came
to the conclusion that 64,000 mathematicions, armed with slide rules
and working together, could just about keep up with the evolution of
the world's weather but would not be able to predict what would happen
in the future. That would take even more people. What he might have
done with today's computing power is a matter for speculation but,
undoubtedly, he would have been at the forefront of things.


--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.

On 30/10/2018 10:49, Norman Lynagh wrote:
I've been having a look at LF Richardson's book

'Weather Prediction by Numerical Process'

It was published in 1922. The following is a link to the first part of
the Preface to the book. It really is worth a read because it is all so
true.


https://db.tt/EPQBEWuhrO


Richardson is considered to be the 'Father' of Numerical Weather
Prediction. He was a man with a great vision of what might be achieved
if only he had the tools which, of course, in 1922 he did not. He came
to the conclusion that 64,000 mathematicions, armed with slide rules
and working together, could just about keep up with the evolution of
the world's weather but would not be able to predict what would happen
in the future. That would take even more people. What he might have
done with today's computing power is a matter for speculation but,
undoubtedly, he would have been at the forefront of things.



The celestial computer otherwise known as the
Antikythera mechanism did a pretty good job about 400 BC, at processing
that sort of stuff.