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1, 2, 3, … , Infinity?

A Childhood Exercise ...

A Childhood Exercise ...

A Childhood Exercise ...

A Childhood Exercise ...

What are the problems?

Where I’m headed --- Errors

Inferential Structure Error

Computational Science and Engineering Education

My Problem-Based Learning

What is the model?

J. H. Wilkinson and IEEE 754/854

The Wilkinson Set (6-12)

What Do You Believe?

The Machine Epsilon

Three Magic Numbers.

An Answer to How Good? (3,15)

Examples of Rounding

So, how much are kids ripped off?

The Function fl (14-15)

Operations (16-18)

Cancellation of Significant Units (17-18)

Major Handout Is Produced

Author: Steve Stevenson

Email: steve@cs.clemson.edu

Home Page: http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~steve/

Last update on: June 1, 1998
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