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by umpalumpaaa 404 days ago
Every time I see anything on the N-Body problem I am reminded by my final high school project... I had 2-3 weeks of time to write an n-body simulation. Back then I used C++ and my hardware was really bad (2 GHz single core CPU or so…). The result was not really impressive because it did not really work. :D But I was able to show that my code correctly predicted that the moon and the earth would eventually collide without any initial velocity given to both bodies. I went into this totally naive and blind but it was a ton of fun.
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> my hardware was really bad (2 GHz single core CPU or so…)

laughs in 32kb of RAM

Sounds like a great project, though. There's a lot of fundamental concepts involved in something like this, so it's a great learning exercise (and fun as well!) :)