Solar System Astrophysics: A Text for the Science of Planetary Systems (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library): Background Science and the Inner Solar System

Eugene F. Milone,William J.F. Wilson

ISBN 10: 3211835938 / ISBN 13: 9783211835937

Published by Springer 2008-05-28, 2008

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• Title: Solar System Astrophysics: A Text for the Science of Planetary Systems (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library): Background Science and the Inner Solar System
• Publisher: Springer 2008-05-28
• Publication Date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 3211835938
• ISBN 13: 9783211835937
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The usual "implementation? of real numbers as floating point numbers on existing computers has the well-known disadvantage that most of the real numbers are not exactly representable in floating point. Also the four basic arithmetic operations can usually not be performed exactly. During the last years research in different areas has been intensified in order to overcome these problems. (Leda-Library by K. Mehlhorn et al., "Exact arithmetic with real numbers? by A. Edalat et al., Symbolic algebraic methods, verification methods). The latest development is the combination of symbolic-algebraic methods and verification methods to so-called hybrid methods. ? This book contains a collection of worked out talks on these subjects given during a Dagstuhl seminar at the Forschungszentrum für Informatik, Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany, presenting the state of the art.