Again the flatearther is vastly outnumbered by a pack of hungry roundies.
Roundies that don't understand that 'simplifying simulations/calculations' is a misnomer in our days of petaflop calculations within the largest governmental mainframes.
I think that "Roundies" understand these things far better than you,
Mr Know-it-all on things you know nothing about.
You claim, "is a misnomer in our days of petaflop calculations", but even if that were true,
that paper was written 30 years ago, when there were no computers with petaflop calculation speeds. Had you bothered to read the following you would know that.
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And the quote from Quora:
... until you come across real development or computational limits.
The cited paper is from 1988. Computers were much weaker back then.
For perspective, the Cray Y-MP was sold that year. Its peak performance
was 333 megaflops. She cost $15 million dollars.
While the comparison is not quite valid, on most counts the Cray Y-MP was inferior to an iPhone 6.
NASA now has a Pleiades 7.25 petaflop supercomputer but no-one in their mind would unnecessarily waste valuable time on that.
There is no need for that computing power for early design simulations when a
linearised rigid and constant mass model over a flat non-rotating earth is almost as accurate in many situations.
The curvature and rotation make little difference except for slight changes in the effective
g that depend on direction and speed.
The use of a linear simplified model in the early stages of any design is common practice in all branches of engineering.
Roundies ,you are not only predictable, but the copy paste wisdom has clouded your minds up to a point of no return...... please claim your own senses back before it is to late......
Really? All I see out of you is ridicule because you are simply ignorant of the facts of this case.
I'm afraid your own self-indoctrination has blinded you to the real world. I've still got all my senses, thank you!