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Floating Point Arithmetic and Machine Epsilon
Now, if you’re not familiar with these terms, let me break it down for ya. Floating point arithmetic is the way computers perform calculations…
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Rounding Errors in Floating Point Numbers
First off, let’s clarify what exactly is meant by “floating point” and why it matters. In computer science, floating point refers to a way…
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Floating Point Numbers
Yeah, those. Well, they ain’t perfect. In fact, they can be downright inaccurate at times. First off, what floating point numbers actually are. They’re…
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Roundoff Error in Numerical Calculations
You know what I’m talking about: those ***** little numbers that sneak up on you and mess with your calculations. No worries, though, because…
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Product Integration in Survival Analysis
First, let’s define what we mean by “product integration” in this context. In survival analysis (which is a fancy way of saying statistics for…
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On modelling with multiplicative differential equations
So what exactly are these “multiplicative” babies? Well, they’re just fancy math formulas that involve multiplying things together instead of adding or subtracting them…
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Nonlinear Calculus and Its Applications in Economics
First off, let’s define what exactly is meant by “nonlinear.” In traditional linear calculus, you might remember that the slope of a line can…
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Volterra Product Integral
It’s called the Volterra product integral, and it’s basically like taking the product of two functions over an interval and then integrating them. Now,…
