What's numerical hygiene? I searched for it, but didn't find it.
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:32, Dan <vi5u0-maxima at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Bastiaan Bergman wrote:
>
> I want to numerically evaluate an expression obtained by Maxima (or any
>> other CAS for that matter). Doing that I frequently hit on an expression
>> that cannot be evaluated because it involves parts with extremely big
>> numbers. What is the general approach to solve such problem? Is there a
>> branch of science working on such problems, how is that called (what do I
>> Google)?
>>
>
> Depending exactly what you want, useful search terms might be
>
> asymptotics
> limits
> numerical hygiene
>
> --
>
> HTH,
>
> Dan
>
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