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by littlestymaar 1860 days ago
> Building a bridge can basically be “statically analyzed” completely

This. And even then, after the calculations are done the engineer add a “safety margin” (and it's not 10%, more like 500 or 1000%).

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Good point. And also, it is possible to add safety margins to other areas of engineering. One may be able to eg. store an array with padded nulls (actually we sort of do it at an OS level, just not with null but some “magic number”), but if it’s a loop/recursion, non-correct software will blow up either way - here it is more close to mathematics than science or engineering in my opinion.