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Phil Cook v2 wrote:
> And lo On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:37:13 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> did
> spake thusly:
>
>> OK, so I finally have to ask. What the hell *is* a chi-squared test?
>> And why does POV-Ray need one?
>
> It's a confidence test so as Le_Forgeron stated it's used to keep the
> processing down i.e. should I bother with this sample? Chi-squared
> returns that there's only a 1% chance there's something significant
> there, so no I won't bother.
OK, so how do you determine that an arbitrarily discontinuous function
has been sampled to within an acceptable level of confidence? What's the
algorithm here?
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