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		markstock 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Writing N-body gravity simulations code in Python It is a fudge if you really are trying to simulate true point masses. Mathematically, it's solving for the force between fuzzy blobs of mass.

mkoubaa 8 months ago [–]

You are never simulating pure anything. All computational models are wrong. Some are useful

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