Thursday, September 6, 2007

Section 1.3/1.4

In Section 1.4, I was curious about what was the reason behind calculating the accurate digits. Does this equation give the amount of accurate digits in the approximation from the actual solution. I don't think I understand completely how that equation which is so similar to the relative error, which I understand, could be related to the accurate digits equation. I liked the discussion of truncated strategies that can be found in chess. I thought that was very interesting. I'm not sure if I completely understood the floating-point numbers.
I liked Section 1.3. I found the section very understandable and useful. A lot of the ideas I have seen before in previous computer science courses.

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