From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-03-22T09:26:54+09:00
Subject: Re: disease model

In article <3C9A5461.2852A2EE@LaRC.NASA.Gov>,
Bil Kleb  <W.L.Kleb@LaRC.NASA.Gov> wrote:
>Phil Tomson wrote:
>> 
>> Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>> >
>> >I'm glad to see other folks using Ruby for simulation. I'm using it for
>> >hybrid systems simulations--hybrid systems are finite state machines
>> >with ODE's attached to each state--of vehicle and controllers.
>> 
>> What's an ODE?
>
>Pure speculation: ODE = Ordinary Differential Equation
>

Oh, of course.  Since I'm doing logic simulation I totally forgot about 
calculus.

Phil