Lecture

Floating Point Numbers: Representation and Errors

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This lecture covers the representation of floating point numbers, round-off errors, and examples of loss of significance. It introduces the concepts of single and double precision, real number representation in a computer, and the dangers of overflow errors. The instructor demonstrates examples using MATLAB to illustrate the impact of floating point arithmetic on numerical computations.

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