Reading through the beautifully culled The Math Book by Clifford A. Pickover (real?) that I picked up at Barnes and Noble, I ran across the concept of fuzzy logic and it's simplistic beauty.Instead of the binary model where there are absolutes (1+1=2), fuzzy logic seemingly enhances a value by inclusion of approximates, or degrees, or ranges ([set1]+[set2]=value). Since it's coining by Iranian born Lotfi Zadeh in 1965, it has since been used in applications ranging from washing machines to trains.
How this helps a washing machine can be summed up easily: where a washing machine does a series of actions, the clothes become the variable, so why not adjust performance parameters around fuzz...fuzziness...that can find attributable sets then adjust the performance accordingly? Load, clothing material, temperature, performance reaction are set to this not 'crisp' logic and one that can approximate based on the best result. The result condition is not only the best wash for the clothes but for the overall performance and longevity of the machine.
Moderation as expressed in mathematical terms.
FUZZY IN MUSIC: http://artsites.ucsc.edu/EMS/music/research/fuzzylogictutor/fuzzytut.html
FUZZY 22 PAGE PDF: http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/rojas/neural/chapter/K11.pdf
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