<html><head></head><body><div><span data-mailaddress="msd001@gmail.com" data-contactname="Mike Dougherty" class="clickable"><span title="msd001@gmail.com">Mike Dougherty</span><span class="detail"> <msd001@gmail.com></span></span> , 4/6/2014 2:57 AM:<br><blockquote class="mori" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px blue solid;padding-left:1ex;"><p><br>
On Jun 3, 2014 8:10 PM, "Anders Sandberg" <<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" title="mailto:anders@aleph.se" class="mailto">anders@aleph.se</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Just checking the sign of numbers catches a surprising number of errors.</p>
<p>Call it the Zodiac test. ...or was that not the sign you meant? ;)<br>
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</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>In any case it sounds like a good response to "What's your sign?" "Positive!"</div><div><br></div><div>(Another great way of testing that you did your algebra right is to write an agent based model and simulate the result... I did that today to check a calculation)</div><br><br>Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University</body></html>