Lecture

Floating Point Numbers: LU Decomposition and Errors

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This lecture covers the representation of floating point numbers, LU decomposition without and with pivoting, ill-conditioned systems, induced matrix norms, condition number, and various types of errors in computational physics. It also discusses the importance of machine epsilon, round-off errors, and the impact of errors in numerical computations.

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Analysis: Numerical analysis

Algebra: Linear algebra

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