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  2. Numeric precision in Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia

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    Excel maintains 15 figures in its numbers, but they are not always accurate; mathematically, the bottom line should be the same as the top line, in 'fp-math' the step '1 + 1/9000' leads to a rounding up as the first bit of the 14 bit tail '10111000110010' of the mantissa falling off the table when adding 1 is a '1', this up-rounding is not undone when subtracting the 1 again, since there is no ...

  3. Richardson extrapolation - Wikipedia

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    A (1, 1) = Trapezoidal (f, tStart, tEnd, h, y0) % Each row of the matrix requires one call to Trapezoidal % This loops starts by filling the second row of the matrix, % since the first row was computed above for i = 1: maxRows-1 % Starting at i = 1, iterate at most maxRows - 1 times % Halve the previous value of h since this is the start of a ...

  4. Romberg's method - Wikipedia

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    The zeroeth extrapolation, R(n, 0), is equivalent to the trapezoidal rule with 2 n + 1 points; the first extrapolation, R(n, 1), is equivalent to Simpson's rule with 2 n + 1 points. The second extrapolation, R(n, 2), is equivalent to Boole's rule with 2 n + 1 points. The further extrapolations differ from Newton-Cotes formulas.

  5. Polynomial interpolation - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, you only need to do O(n) extra work if an extra point is added to the data set, while for the other methods, you have to redo the whole computation. Another method is preferred when the aim is not to compute the coefficients of p ( x ), but only a single value p ( a ) at a point x = a not in the original data set.

  6. Catastrophic cancellation - Wikipedia

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    Given numbers and , the naive attempt to compute the mathematical function by the floating-point arithmetic ⁡ (⁡ ⁡ ()) is subject to catastrophic cancellation when and are close in magnitude, because the subtraction can expose the rounding errors in the squaring.

  7. Hermite interpolation - Wikipedia

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    The number of pieces of information, function values and derivative values, must add up to . Hermite's method of interpolation is closely related to the Newton's interpolation method, in that both can be derived from the calculation of divided differences. However, there are other methods for computing a Hermite interpolating polynomial.

  8. Adaptive mesh refinement - Wikipedia

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    As the calculation progresses, individual grid cells are tagged for refinement, using a criterion that can either be user-supplied (for example mass per cell remains constant, hence higher density regions are more highly resolved) or based on Richardson extrapolation. All tagged cells are then refined, meaning that a finer grid is overlaid on ...

  9. Successive parabolic interpolation - Wikipedia

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    Successive parabolic interpolation is a technique for finding the extremum (minimum or maximum) of a continuous unimodal function by successively fitting parabolas (polynomials of degree two) to a function of one variable at three unique points or, in general, a function of n variables at 1+n(n+3)/2 points, and at each iteration replacing the "oldest" point with the extremum of the fitted ...