Authors Ward Cheney and David Kincaid show students of science and engineering the potential computers have for solving numerical problems and give them ample opportunities to hone their skills in programming and problem solving. The text also helps students learn about errors that inevitably accompany scientific computations and arms them with methods for detecting, predicting, and controlling these errors. A more theoretical text with a different menu of topics is the authors' highly regarded NUMERICAL ANALYSIS: MATHEMATICS OF SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING, THIRD EDITION.
| 1 Introduction |
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Errors: Absolute and Relative |
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First Programming Experiment |
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1.2 Review of Taylor Series |
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Taylor's Theorem in Terms of (x-c) |
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Taylor's Theorem in Terms of h |
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| 2 Number Representation and Errors |
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2.1 Representation of Numbers in Different Bases |
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Conversion of Integer Parts |
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Conversion of Fractional Parts |
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