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Accuracy and Reliability in Scientific Computing
Contributor(s): Einarsson, Bo (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0898715849     ISBN-13: 9780898715842
Publisher: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematic
OUR PRICE: $60.80  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: August 2005
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Microscopes & Microscopy
Dewey: 502.85
LCCN: 2005047019
Series: Software, Environments, Tools
Physical Information: 338 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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Developing accurate and reliable scientific software is notoriously difficult. This book investigates some of the difficulties related to scientific computing and provides insight into how to overcome them and obtain dependable results. The text deals thoroughly with the problems that affect software in general as well as the particular challenges of numerical computation: approximations occurring at all levels, continuous functions replaced by discretized versions, infinite processes replaced by finite ones, and real numbers replaced by finite precision numbers. Divided into three parts, it starts by illustrating some of the difficulties in producing robust and reliable scientific software. The second section describes diagnostic tools that can be used to assess the accuracy and reliability of existing scientific applications. In the last section, the authors describe a variety of techniques that can be employed to improve the accuracy and reliability of newly developed scientific applications.
 
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