SIR Earth and Space Science Investigation Abstract
ANALYZING DATA FROM COSMIC RAY DETECTORS
Presenter:
Dobromir Rabovianski, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, 1500 W. Sullivan Road, Aurora, IL 60506
Mentor:
Mr. Tom Jordan, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Abstract:
My research started in successfully designing code in PERL (the programming language) to manipulate data acquired from cosmic ray detectors. The data came in pairs that had to be sorted by the first number and the program that I created performed just that function. I used a hash-map to keep both values paired and sorted them by keys. Currently, I am working on a code that includes some calculations. I need to alter it so that the arithmetic (in the code) restricts the emergence of floats and only integers are obtained. Floats can never yield an exact answer without error, and the use of integers can fix the problem in this particular situation.