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Engineers and scientists who want to avoid insidious errors in their computer-assisted calculations will welcome this concise guide to trouble-shooting. Real Computing Made Real offers practical advice on detecting and removing bugs. It also outlines techniques for preserving significant figures, avoiding extraneous solutions, and finding efficient iterative processes for solving nonlinear equations.
Those who compute with real numbers (for example, floating-point numbers stored with limited precision) tend to develop techniques that...

  • PublisherDover Publications
  • Publication date2005
  • ISBN 10 0486442217
  • ISBN 13 9780486442211
  • BindingPaperback
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Number of pages288
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