<div dir="auto"><div><div>Hi David, </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'll manually remove your email. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For others, the unsubscribe link is in the signature of the messages. It is:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">____________________________________________<br>CEO Founder, Simtable.com<br><a href="mailto:stephen.guerin@simtable.com">stephen.guerin@simtable.com</a> <br><br>Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab<br><a href="mailto:stephenguerin@fas.harvard.edu">stephenguerin@fas.harvard.edu</a><br><br>mobile: (505)577-5828</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 15, 2024, 7:01 AM Pedersen, David John II <<a href="mailto:pedersen@lanl.gov">pedersen@lanl.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">I am pretty sure this the stupidest question I have ever asked this forum,, so I am at your mercy.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">I am in one of those situations where language and mathematics are rubbing together and driving crazy.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Let say that my patio is ten steps down from my back door. I have two cats, Dee and Ess, and Dee is dominant
to Ess. So, if I go out to let them in, and I find Ess on step -2 and Dee on step -8, I know I have an unstable situation . And I would rate the degree of instability as a positive 6. How would I compare the two numbers mathematically to get a minus
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">But let’s say that for conceptual reasons I want to conceive of the situation as a degree of stability, with negative
stability corresponding to instability. Now, according to my index, the situation is a minus 6. How would I compare the two numbers mathematically to get a minus 6.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">The situation I am trying to model here is the origin of the notion of static stability in meteorology. Static
Stability has a lot to do with differential lapse rates. But lapse rates are minus numbers. So a parcel is unstable if it has a lower lapse rate than surrounding parcels, and the greater the absolute value the difference between them, the greater the instability.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">I asked “George” (GPT) to help me with this, but he suggested I just take absolute values and give them whatever
sign I want, but somebody told me, way back when, that taking absolute values was not kosher in mathematics. (Why else would the variance be the mean SQUARED deviation about the mean?).
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