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Lectures
Class 1 Introduction
Class 2 Errors, accuracy, and roundoff
- Questions
- Notes
- Slides
- Some good links
- Cook: What’s so hard about finding a hypotenuse?
- Cook: Math library functions that seem unnecessary
- Cook: Anatomy of a floating point number
- What every computer scientist should know about floating point arithmetic
- Base 3 is best
- Brian Hayes, “Third Base,” American Scientist 89(6):490-494(2001).